Engineering Director - Ubuntu Linux Enablement QA
Canonical
- Taipei City
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage, mentor and grow the software engineering teams addressing hardware enablement quality assurance and testing
- Lead the QA Engineering team activity, which covers
- Planning, creation and management of the overall Quality Planning strategy and documents
- Improving our automated test capability with design and code contributions
- Execution of automated and manual testing of Ubuntu Desktop and Core
- Test result triage and precise bug creation
- Suggesting solutions to identified problems
- Overseeing continuous improvement projects
- Establishing proactive measures to improve the quality and reliability of Ubuntu
- Preparing time estimates and schedule for testing activities
- Work with development teams across multiple projects to build efficient, effective automated testing
- Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture
- Hire staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality
- Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity
- Implement rigorous engineering processes and defend them
- Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency
- Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Outstanding Linux based software engineering track record, preferably with low-level embedded experience
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Leadership and a track record of developing and growing people
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
- Management experience and the confidence to set high expectations
- Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
- Computer architecture knowledge of x86, ARM, and RISC-V
- Desktop and IoT hardware peripherals knowledge (cameras, wireless connectivity, etc.)
- Open source community engagement and leadership
- Ops and system administration experience
- Performance engineering and security experience
- 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