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Ubuntu Package Management- Engineering Manager

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What You’ll Do

  • Define the technical vision and roadmap for Ubuntu's package management and system lifecycle platform
  • Participate in design reviews and key technical decisions affecting software management and system lifecycle technologies across the Ubuntu ecosystem
  • Promote high standards for performance, reliability, security, and maintainability

What You’ll Do

  • Lead and support a team of engineers responsible for key Ubuntu platform technologies.
  • Mentor and grow engineers, helping them expand their technical leadership, ownership, and organizational impact
  • Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement

What You’ll Do

  • Plan and deliver improvements across multiple Ubuntu release cycles
  • Balance innovation with stability, compatibility, and long-term maintainability
  • Improve test automation, release quality, and operational reliability

What You’ll Do

  • Build strong partnerships across Ubuntu Engineering, including Release Engineering, Launchpad, Desktop, Server, Security, OEM, and Product teams
  • Collaborate with Debian, upstream projects, and the Ubuntu open source community

What We Are Looking For

  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
  • Strong background in software engineering and system design
  • Experience leading engineering teams, including people management, coaching, and performance development
  • Experience developing or operating Linux distribution technologies, package management systems, or software distribution infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of systems software and operating system architecture
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed engineering team
  • Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

What We Are Looking For

  • Familiarity with package repositories, archives, or release engineering processes
  • Experience contributing to Debian, Ubuntu, or other open source infrastructure projects
  • Performance, reliability, or security engineering experience

What Success Looks Like

  • Build strong relationships with the team and stakeholders across Ubuntu Engineering
  • Gain a deep understanding of Ubuntu package management, update flows, archive interactions, and release processes
  • Identify key improvement opportunities in reliability, test coverage, engineering processes, and product quality

What Success Looks Like

  • Establish strong partnerships with stakeholders across Ubuntu Engineering, including Release Engineering, Launchpad, Desktop, Server, Security, OEM, and Product
  • Grow the team and raise the overall level of engineering excellence, ownership, and technical leadership
  • Improve roadmap clarity, planning, and execution across the team's portfolio
  • Deliver meaningful improvements to Ubuntu's package management and system lifecycle platform

What we offer you

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
  • Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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