Global Head of Performance Engineering
Company: Canonical Group Ltd
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: August 7, 2022
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Job Description:
We are looking for a worldwide leader in software performance,
both to challenge Canonical engineering teams and to raise the bar
for open source performance globally.
This is an opportunity - perhaps a once in a lifetime opportunity -
to bring fresh ideas to software performance. Our scope is almost
unlimited. Open source spans the full spectrum of software - from
the kernel and RTOS all the way to the web, for single thread
software on tiny machines to massively parallel distributed
systems, the challenges of performance are as diverse as the kinds
of code we touch.
In the minds of customers and 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
software performance.
We consider performance and efficiency to be closely related. We
want machines running open source to be greener than any possible
alternative, and performance engineering is a key part of that
equation. We also want businesses to get answers faster, users to
spend less time waiting, RAM to go further, older machines to be
useful for longer. All of this rests on our ability to inspire,
cajole and measure performance engineering both inside of Canonical
and in the wider open source ecosystem.
This is not an academic role, nor one for the fainthearted. We
expect to see demonstrable changes in teams and metrics as a result
of this appointment, and we will only support a leader who can
attract a global external following to their ideas. We only have
one space for such a leader, and we will only keep someone in role
who we think is the best, and most deserving, of the
opportunity.
Your role will cover the whole Canonical product engineering
organization, contributing at both high and detailed levels to help
teams enhance the performance of their products. Applicants to this
role should have a proven track record of engineering management,
leadership, excellence, and consistency in multiple areas,
projects, or teams. They will need to be able to help teams set and
measure appropriate metrics, and judge management ability to move
constructively in the right direction on those metrics. They will
need to be able to do this with teams working on vastly different
kinds of software, and they will need to make arguments that are
compelling and inspiring and practical to implement for engineers
who do not work for Canonical and are not accountable to us.
We want to push the boundaries of performance. This role is
important not just for bragging rights to speed, but also for the
impact that it can have on global energy use in machines touched by
Canonical's work and open source more broadly. The ideal candidate
will have significant experience in performance engineering, will
have a history of data-driven decision-making, will be an
articulate communicator, will be comfortable presenting plans and
results to management, and will have prior experience leading
successful projects and teams.
What you'll do
Who you are
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 we will
give your application fair consideration.
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