Canonical – Jobs Hiring for Engineering Director – Quality at Alberta Full Time

We are looking for a global champion of software quality, who will challenge not only our own teams, but also open source developers all around the globe, to raise the bar on quality through innovation, process and community. This is an opportunity to set the standard for software quality in open source – not just in Ubuntu but also in the wider context of public cloud, private cloud, cloud-native, serverless, desktop and device software.

In the minds of our customers and our users, Canonical doesn’t just represent Ubuntu, it represents a pathway to all of open source. As leaders in the community, we can shape standards, expectations and patterns which are noticed and adopted widely. Our six month release cadence has become something of a standard. Our two year LTS cycle – even the term LTS itself – has also been widely adopted in the open source community. We’d like to do the same now for quality.

As the Engineering Director of Quality at Canonical, you have a key role in the success of Ubuntu, our partners, customers, and the larger Ubuntu community. Your role will cover the whole product engineering organization, contributing at both high and detailed levels to help numerous teams enhance the quality of their products. Applicants to this role should have a proven track record of exceptional engineering management, leadership, excellence, and consistency in multiple areas, projects, or teams.

Do you want to determine the next generation of what’s possible with software quality? Are you ready to innovate and redefine the status quo? We’re looking for a leader passionate about technology, quality, and testing. This is not a traditional QA role.

In this role you will bring your expertise in quality and testing to bear on all of Canonical’s software products, across the entire engineering organization. You will consult with engineering managers and teams to establish consistency in how software is tested, identify opportunities for testing improvement, and measure results and progress over time. But perhaps more importantly you will articulate to the world the principles and practices that we think raise the standard for everybody, and hold Canonical accountable to them.

What you’ll do

Collaborate proactively across product engineering to help define harmonized testing procedure and pipelines

Own overall product quality process and direction of testing frameworks

Mentor others and provide cross-team input

Evaluate the quality discipline of engineering teams

Write high quality code to implement foundational components as needed

Work to reduce complexity and improve maintainability of our test frameworks

Influence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineers

Support and encourage solid engineering processes (e.g. TDD, kanban, scrum, etc.)

Work from home with global travel 6 to 8 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

You have engineering management experience and have delivered great products

You have a passion for innovation in the software engineering discipline of quality & test

You love technology and working with brilliant people

Proven track record of automated regression and integration testing in complex projects, ideally in Python and/or Golang

You demonstrate an understanding of the definition of done

You have an understanding of the full lifecycle of modern software development

You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or similar degree

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.