Staff Engineer, Development Lifecycle

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead efforts in making Ubuntu suitable for mission-critical systems in regulated environments, focusing on engineering excellence and compliance standards.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our effort to get Ubuntu fit for applications in automotive, aerospace, industrial robotics and other highly regulated environments
• Transform complex demands into concrete outcomes, and in turn into engineering excellence values and practices
• Lead and challenge engineering culture, working with teams across the organisation
• Make practices come alive, at every level of engineering
• Help define Canonical’s ways of working, collaborating with engineering leadership to describe and implement continuous improvement processes
• Establish qualification requirements in support of engineering quality standards
• Define methods and approaches for measuring quality, and use them to shape and sharpen engineering culture
• Establish strategic relations with external working groups, committees and partners
• Join the industrial standards team at Canonical and work closely with company-wide engineering leadership to define and deliver this vision

Requirements:

• Strong experience in engineering and process management in an agile environment
• Knowledge or certification of standards addressing quality of software artifacts such as ISO/IEC 25010 or ASPICE
• Love developing and growing people and teams and have a track record of doing it
• Led successful compliance and certification efforts, understand well the process and stakeholders management required
• Experience with Linux
• Background as a software developer
• Experience in establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills