Engineering Manager, MAAS
Join to apply for the Engineering Manager, MAAS role at Canonical.
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the general enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with over 1200 colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office‑based roles. The company is founder‑led, profitable and growing.
We are hiring an Engineering Manager as we expand the MAAS team. MAAS (“Metal as a Service”) is to provide the best solution for building and running private bare‑metal infrastructure, putting a cloud‑style on‑demand API in front of physical server provisioning, network configuration, and storage. MAAS is a rapidly evolving software stack written in Python and Go, spanning low‑level hardware detection and provisioning to upper‑level management web interface, API, and CLI. Our mission is to provide the most scalable,



cloud‑ready server distribution and MAAS platform to get Ubuntu on bare‑metal servers. Engineering managers with experience in high‑quality software development, high‑performance team leadership, deep familiarity with Linux on physical servers, Linux storage, and data‑center networking are needed.
Leading a distributed team of engineers in your time zone (we organise engineering teams by Americas, EMEA, etc.)
Talent development through coaching, mentoring, feedback and career planning
Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
Being an advocate of, and advancing, modern software development practices
Participating in the engineering process through code and architectural review
Travelling to internal and external global events for 4 to 6 weeks per year
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field
Proven experi

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Canonical
📍 Madrid