Global Head of Performance Engineering
Company: Canonical Group Ltd
Location: Omaha
Posted on: May 16, 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
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