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You will work across the full Linux stack from kernel through networking, virtualization and graphics to optimise Ubuntu, the world’s most widely used Linux desktop and server, for the latest silicon.  Our teams partner with specialist engineers from major silicon companies to integrate next-generation features and performance enhancements for upcoming hardware. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact on the adoption of Linux across multiple industries. The right candidate must be resourceful, articulate, and able to deliver on a wide variety of solutions across server, desktop and IoT technologies. Canonical offers a fun, fast-paced team environment and a career full of learning and development opportunities.  Location: This is a Globally remote role What your day will look like - Design and implement the best Ubuntu integration for the latest IoT desktop and server-class hardware platforms and software stacks - Work with partners to deliver an optimised, first class Ubuntu experience on their platforms - Take a holistic approach to the Ubuntu experience on partner platforms with inputs on technical plans, testing strategy, quality metrics - Participate as technical lead on customer engagements involving complete system architectures from cloud to edge - Help our partners integrate their apps, SDKs, build device OS images, and optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server - Work with the most advanced operating systems and application technologies available in the enterprise world. Joining Canonical, you will partner with bright minds from all over the world, and work with an exciting set of new technologies in a fast growing company with a truly unique and ambitious vision to build a better platform with free software. You will work with customers on exciting IoT, desktop and server platforms and technologies, built to support different verticals: from robots to data centers, from telco to retail, as well as automotive. What we are looking for in you - You love technology and working with brilliant people - You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar  - You have experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto) - You have experience working with open source communities and licences - You have experience working with Python, C, C++ - You can work in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation. Nice to have - Experience with server technologies, including UEFI firmware, GPU computing, RDMA/Infiniband and virtualization stacks - Experience with graphics stacks - Good understanding of networking - TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST - Basic understanding of security best practices in IoT or server environments - Good communication skills, ideally public speaking experience - IoT / Embedded experience – from board and SoC, BMCs, bootloaders and firmware to OS, through apps and services - Experience working with CI automation platforms such as GitHub - Experience with performance benchmarking and profiling - Some experience with Docker/OCI containers/K8s What we offer you - Learning and development opportunities - Annual compensation review - Recognition rewards - Annual leave - Priority Pass for travel Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process. - Fu

Work across the full Linux stack from kernel through GUI to optimise Ubuntu, the world’s most widely used Linux desktop and server, for the latest silicon. The role is a fast-paced, problem-solving role that’s challenging yet very exciting. The right candidate must be resourceful, articulate, and able to deliver on a wide variety of solutions across PC and IoT technologies. Our teams partner with specialist engineers from major silicon companies to integrate next-generation features and performance enhancements for upcoming hardware. Location: This is a Globally remote role What your day will look like - Design and implement the best Ubuntu integration for the latest IoT and server-class hardware platforms and software stacks - Work with partners to deliver a delightful, optimised, first class Ubuntu experience on their platforms - Take a holistic approach to the Ubuntu experience on partner platforms with inputs on technical plans, testing strategy, quality metrics - Participate as technical lead on complex customer engagements involving complete system architectures from cloud to edge - Help our customers integrate their apps, SDKs, build device OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server - Work with the most advanced operating systems and application technologies available in the enterprise world. Joining Canonical , you will partner with bright minds from all over the world, and work with an exciting set of new technologies in a fast growing company with a truly unique and ambitious vision to build a better platform with free software. You will work with customers on exciting IoT and server platforms and technologies, built to support different verticals: from robots to data centers, from telco to retail. What we are looking for in you - You love technology and working with brilliant people - You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar  - You have experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto) - You have experience working with open source communities and licences - You have experience working with C, C++ - You can work in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation. Additional skills that you might also bring - Experience with graphics stacks - Good understanding of networking - TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST - Basic understanding of security best practices in IoT or server environments - Good communication skills, ideally public speaking experience - IoT / Embedded experience – from board and SoC, BMCs, bootloaders and firmware to OS, through apps and services - Some experience with Docker/OCI containers/K8s What we offer you Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process. - Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! - Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum - Annual compensation review - Recognition rewards - Annual holiday leave - Parental Leave - Employee Assistance Programme - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’ - Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source pr

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. Every year we select new junior professionals into the Canonical Kernel Team, to work on the Linux kernel for Ubuntu. If you’ve enjoyed operating systems in your coursework or current role, you are confident in your ability to write high quality C and possibly Rust, and are ready to take the plunge and see how it all works, then this would be a great place to pursue your next career stage. We are a global team working to ship the world's most widely used Linux kernel, across the very latest silicon and cloud, where you can apply and grow your software engineering skills. The Canonical Kernel Team builds and maintains all supported Ubuntu Linux kernels for a variety of platforms and architectures from small embedded devices to standard desktop/server systems to large-scale cloud environments. In your first year you will tackle serious initiatives, which include but are not limited to: - Optimized solutions for key Silicon and Cloud partner platforms - Developer platforms such as Raspberry Pi and RISC-V - Enabling Ubuntu on a wide range of embedded systems - Security hardening and exploit mitigation - Third-party driver integration and distribution, such as graphics - Expanded driver support for bleeding-edge PC platforms We select candidates that are recent university graduates or early career professionals who are enthusiastic to develop kernel-level software in multiple areas including security updates, patching, and testing. The successful candidate will have a background in software engineering, be motivated to work in a distributed team and willing and able to travel globally twice a year for company engineering events. These are full-time positions available to prospective or recently graduated students. Location: We have home-based Kernel Teams in every timezone. The role entails - Collaborate regularly and proactively with a globally distributed team - Learn from senior mentors to demystify the inner workings of the Linux kernel and how it is distributed - Work closely with external silicon, cloud, or hardware manufacturer delivery teams on bleeding-edge platforms - Diagnose and resolve issues in the kernel reported by customers, the community, and discovered by your own rigorous testing - Take personal responsibility for the delivery of various flavors of the Ubuntu Linux kernel - Improve tooling and automation for delivery and test of Ubuntu Linux kernels - Submit, review, and apply kernel patches, working with both internal and external upstream maintainers What we are looking for in you - Well-organized and motivated self-starter able to thrive in a remote work environment - Professional manner with colleagues, business partners, and the open-source community - Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and verbal - Programming experience in C and/or Rust - Familiarity with version control practices, ideally with git - Understanding of operating system kernel fundamentals - Ability to travel twice a year for company events of up to two weeks length Nice-to-have skills - Interest and experience in Rust - Python and Bash scripting ability - Prior experience with Ubuntu/Debian/Snap packaging - Demonstrated experience with kernel patching and debugging - Strong gr

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. This is a general selection track for teams that focus on back-end REST API microservices engineering in Go and Python. It covers all levels of seniority. Apply here if you are already an outstanding engineer with crisp and well-articulated views on APIs, microservice design, engineering processes and DevOps. Our services need to scale to handle millions of Ubuntu clients, and collaboration across thousands of community members. They are also central to the health of critical infrastructure across the globe. As Ubuntu has been embraced by mainstream enterprise computing through the adoption of cloud and developer-centric tech strategy, the quality of these services has become more important to customers and users. While Ubuntu has been enormously successful and in many senses leads the industry, we think we can substantially improve our practices, quality and performance in the web services domain. We are growing our teams, and in doing so we aim to level up our insights on scalability, performance, resilience and DevOps practices. Key areas of interest for us are: - API design, documentation, and governance - Database performance design considerations and skills - Multi-region service delivery for resilience and performance - Fuzzing and other proactive security analysis techniques - Tracing and profiling for distributed systems insights - Next-generation DevOps practices Location : we have microservices teams with open roles in every time zone. What your day will look like - Write high-quality, well-designed, and robust software that works at scale - Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review - Write tests that validate software behaviour - Build and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant applications and services - Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team - Display technical leadership internally and within our external communities - Debug issues and produce high-quality solutions to resolve them - Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind - Discuss, contribute to, and collaborate across teams at Canonical - Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events What we are looking for in you - 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 - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations - Proficiency in Python and / or Go - History of writing modern, maintainable software - Experience with relational and non-relational database systems - Continuous integration and continuous delivery experience - Experience with systems programming or scalable web services - Professional written and spoken English  - Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)  - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability  - Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation  - Excellent communication and presentation skills  - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments  - Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each Additional skills that you might also bring - Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker, and Kube

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring  Rust Engineering Leads of all levels of experience to drive the adoption of this exciting language into the full range of Canonical offerings, starting with Ubuntu but also our own projects and open source offerings. We see Rust as an important new language for system level services and capabilities, and a natural evolution path for the sort of software that would traditionally have been written in C or C++. We believe that there is an opportunity to rethink the foundations of future Linux systems with Rust as a central driver of change in everything from the system firmware and embedded software, bootloaders, up through the kernel and input handling, all the way to the desktop.  We also want to ensure that Ubuntu is the very best platform for Rust development, offering easy access to the widest range of tooling and capabilities that support cutting edge open source and enterprise development. This job posting is our general process for Rust engineers of all levels of seniority, for all relevant teams at Canonical. Apply here if you are an exceptional software engineer who prefers to work in Rust. After the first round of interviews we’ll find the best fit product team at Canonical for you to progress your application based on your personal interests. Canonical has substantial projects in Python, Go, C, C++ and we are starting to invest in Rust. For front-end development we prefer React and Flutter. Join us in our mission to deliver innovative open-source solutions to individuals and enterprises around the world. We expect the highest engineering standards and strong motivation to get things done well in a fully home-based and distributed environment. These roles require extensive personal experience with Linux - the more different versions of Linux the better! Location : we have open roles for Rust engineers in every time zone. What your day will look like - Design and implement well-tested and well-documented software in Rust - Advocate for Rust adoption in Canonical and upstream projects - Identify projects and codebases that could be prioritised for Rust adoption - Debug and fix issues encountered by your users - Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews - Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications - Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices - In some cases, deploy and operate services developed by the team - Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy What we are looking for in you - 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 - For more senior roles, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations - Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule - Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation - Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community - Experience designing and writing high-quality Rust software on Linux - Experience with and passion for Linux at the system

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. This is a general selection process for software engineers focused on virtualisation and container technology - from the kernel through userspace. Apply here if you are an exceptional Go, Rust, or C/C++ software engineer and want to work on next-generation open source VMM or container technology, or related open source networking and storage. Container, virtualisation and cloud infrastructure have become essentials of modern software deployments. We invest in open source related to application isolation, workload orchestration, system or OCI containers, micro service architecture or cloud infrastructure. Here are some examples of projects under way at Canonical. RustVMM has great potential as a new hypervisor for Linux. We are building a team to work on this, with an emphasis on performance, security and operability. Work in Rust and bring your expert knowledge of VMM and related kernel networking and storage capabilities. Docker images are easy to make and publish on Docker Hub and other registries, but the quality, consistency and security maintenance of those images is broadly very poor. Canonical is in a good position to publish a portfolio of outstanding Docker images. Our Rockcraft team is designing and implementing an elevated Docker image experience for the open source community. LXD is a modern system container and virtual machine manager that is widely used on Ubuntu, ChromeOS and other Linux platforms. LXD engineering spans the entire software stack from low-level kernel work on namespaces, confinement, security, filesystems, VMMs and networking, to the high level management REST API and CLI. Members of the Kubernetes product team build MicroK8s for on-rails K8s, and Charmed Kubernetes for more sophisticated integration. We work on K8s itself and on the operations tooling around it. The OpenStack team deliver Charmed OpenStack, OVN / OVS and Ceph. This work brings cloud platform technologies to large-scale computing environments. These teams hire system level C/C++, Golang, Rust and Python developers to work on security-critical, performance-critical and mission-critical code, focused on software delivery, containers, security, sandboxing, application orchestration and management. Our teams are motivated to have a meaningful impact on modern cloud computing technologies. Location : we have remote container and virt engineering roles in every time zone. What you will focus on - Design and specify new features, building consensus on approach - Engage with upstream communities in your area of expertise - Conduct security analysis and reviews to ensure defence in depth - Create and monitor performance benchmarks to optimise your product - Collaborate proactively with a distributed team - Write high quality code to create new features - Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them - Review code produced by other engineers - Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions What we are looking for in you - 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 - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations - You have worked on open source vi

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. Help us shape the future of open source IT, devops, and IS, from bare metal to containers. Our goal is to revolutionise open source application and infrastructure operations. We want to transform the world of software operations by enabling true model-driven operations via next-generation infrastructure-as-code. This will allow companies to run very efficient bare-metal operations for high-performance computing, private cloud, data lakes, AI/ML, and analytics. We need to invent some new technology, and we need to build some new products; we are therefore looking for someone who can lead and inspire a regional software engineering team to fulfill this initiative. The Solutions Engineering team works in close collaboration with our managed infrastructure operations team, which runs many private OpenStack clouds and Kubernetes clusters for customers around the world. This enables us to improve our infra-as-code products based on our own real experience, mirroring that of our users and customers. We work in Python, creating open source automation capabilities that simplify operations for anybody, anywhere, who is building on Ubuntu. Most of the team's work involves pure Python software development focused on enabling true DevOps workflows. We strive for high quality in both design, documentation, tests, and performance as we enhance operations code packages and Ubuntu itself in order to ensure our platform is the easiest, most robust, and best performing for driving your infrastructure. This role is ideal for software engineers who want to work in a global team, have a passion for distributed systems and cloud computing, and an interest in the entire Linux stack - from kernel to networking to virtualization and containers. What you will do - Work in Python and Golang to design and deliver open source software operations code - Work with the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications - Shape high quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure - Rethink open source operations for our customers and open source community - Demonstrate sound engineering design and testing principles in your code - Follow agile software development practices - Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights - Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values - Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events Who you are - You are a passionate Python developer - You are organised and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software - You understand the importance of reliable operations in an agile world - You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies - You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking - You are a lifelong learner Bonus points for - You have graduated with a university degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field - Golang programming skills What we offer colleagues We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commiss

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring Python and Kubernetes Specialist Engineers focused on Data, Workflows, AI/ML and Analytics Solutions to join our teams building open source solutions for public cloud and private infrastructure. As a software engineer on the team, you'll collaborate on end-to-end data analytics and MLOps solutions composed of popular, open-source, machine learning tools, such as Kubeflow, MLFlow, DVC, and Feast. You may also work on ETL, data governance and visualization tools like Apache SuperSet, dbt, workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow and Temporal, or data warehouse solutions such as Apache Trino, or ClickHouse. These solutions may be run on servers or on the cloud, on machines or on Kubernetes, on developer desktops, or as web services. We serve the needs of individuals and community members as much as the needs of our Global 2000 and Fortune 500 customers; we make our primary work available free of charge and our Pro subscriptions are also available to individuals for personal use at no cost. Our goal is to enable more people to enjoy the benefits of open source, regardless of their circumstances. Location: This initiative spans many teams that are home-based and in multiple time zones. We believe in distributed collaboration but we also try to ensure that colleagues have company during their work hours! Successful candidates will join a team where most members and your manager are broadly in the same time zone so that you have the benefits of constant collaboration and discussion. What your day will look like - Develop your understanding of the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, and storage, to the application layer - Design, build and maintain solutions that will be deployed on public and private clouds and local workstations - Master distributed systems concepts such as observability, identity, tracing - Work with both Kubernetes and machine-oriented open source applications - Collaborate proactively with a distributed team of engineers, designers and product managers - Debug issues and interact in public with upstream and Ubuntu communities - Generate and discuss ideas, and collaborate on finding good solutions What we are looking for in you - Professional or academic software delivery using Python - 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 - Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation - Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results - 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 - Thoughtfulness and self-motivation  - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments  - Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long Additio

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. The Canonical Kernel Team is seeking exceptionally talented technology experts and industry veterans with a proven track record in operating systems kernel development or low level system engineering to take the lead in the architecture, implementation, and ongoing delivery of the following (but not limited to) aspects of the Ubuntu Linux kernel: - Driving engagements for key Silicon and Cloud partners to provide optimal solutions for their platforms - Leading the mitigation of common vulnerabilities and exposures for Ubuntu Linux as well as driving active hardening in the kernel - Architecting enhancements to performance and correctness to make Ubuntu Linux the most reliable and highest performing Linux kernel available today - Streamlining the packaging and distribution of particularly troublesome third-party components for optimal experience by end users - Developing new means to deliver Ubuntu Linux at scale to the strict quality standards and delivery schedules expected by end users While not a formal managerial role, the successful candidate will possess strong people skills and natural ability to lead engineers within the team, as well as working with other external teams to coordinate adoption and delivery. We are looking for individuals with not only an incredibly deep technical background in operating system kernels and distributions, but also a strong flair for leadership and taking initiative to drive ideas and the associated delivery teams to completion. While we hesitate to put a specific number of years of experience as a requirement for an applicant as that does not take into account relative ability or circumstances, for a comparative guideline we would be seeking candidates with the demonstrated technical equivalent of 15+ years of industry experience. Location: We have home-based lead kernel engineer roles in every timezone, although the individual aspects as listed above may be linked to a specific geographic region. What the role entails - Set the technical direction and lead the delivery of a team of junior and mid-career engineers for a key aspect of Ubuntu Linux - Work closely with management within and outside the team to track and coordinate initiatives to delivery - Collaborate daily with other senior technical leadership on the Kernel Team on how best to ensure Ubuntu stays at the pinnacle of Linux distributions What we are looking for in you - Well-organised and motivated self-starter able to thrive in a remote work environment - Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal - Expert understanding of the C programming language - Demonstrated expertise working in a *nix-based operating system kernel and distribution. While direct Linux experience would be ideal, it is not required. - Python and Bash scripting ability - Powerful grasp of the capabilities and nuances of the git version control system - Prior experience developing with software packaging formats, with direct Ubuntu/Debian/Snap experience being highly regarded - Ability to travel internationally at least twice a year for company events of up to two weeks length Nice-to-have skills - Strong background in RTOS and real-time performance analysis - Demonstrated experience with kernel patchi

Job Description Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring an Embedded Linux Field Engineer for Devices/IoT to expand our reach in mission-critical industries such as Automotive, Medical Devices, Industrial Systems, Robotics, and Telco, as well as Consumer Electronics. We are looking for candidates who are accomplished Linux plumbers. If you are someone passionate about Linux, who knows the plumbing of the OS inside and out, who is proficient with distribution packaging, software design, system debugging, and bringing customer's ideas to life, then please keep on reading - this may be a uniquely exciting opportunity for you. The server edition of Ubuntu is already very widely used in connected devices and industrial PC's. Our edition of Ubuntu tailored for IoT, called Ubuntu Core, represents the state of the art in security and resilience for high end appliances and equipment. Our customers include global brands in consumer and industrial electronics as well as automotive and robotics. We continue to expand our range of offerings to bring our security, management and developer experience to the smallest Linux environments and devices. We recently added a real-time Linux capability and are working towards a range of certifications for these offerings. Together, this portfolio is Linux reinvented for optimal reliability, security, developer productivity and footprint. This career opportunity requires a unique blend of skills. Successful candidates will know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters. They will have experience of low-level Linux boot, BIOS, EFI, Secure Boot, firmware, OS Distribution packaging and generally speaking embedded software development methodologies. They also enjoy the pace of change and diversity of client engagements with driven and ambitious technology entrepreneurs. Competitive, business-focused technologists at heart, they are also dedicated team players that take pride in team and company wins. We often say that our field engineers have 'the hardest job at Canonical' because customers can ask about any aspect of our solutions and products and expect a thoughtful, well-informed answer. We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers, regardless of our company interests, and field engineers are the people we trust to ensure that is true. What your day will look like - Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology - Elaborate solutions to be proposed to prospective clients - Participate to the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux - Convey market requirements to key stakeholders in our organization, and sometimes participate to the development or refining of generic solutions to unlock market potential - Be both a customer advocate and a trusted advisor to Canonical What we are looking for in you - Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field - Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred - Distribution / Packaging experience (deb, rpm, ...) - Solid embedded Linux experience (Yocto, Buildroot...) - Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust - Professional written and spoken English in addition to the local language - Excellent communication and presentation skills - Result-oriented, abil

This is a fast-paced engineering role in Linux-based software-defined infrastructure and applications, covering all layers of the stack, including bare metal, virtualization (KVM) and containerization (Docker and LXC/LXD), storage (Ceph and Linux filesystems), networking (OVS, OVN and Core networking), up to OpenStack and Kubernetes, and the open source applications running on top of them. This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and open source to build a career with Canonical and drive success for our customers, community and the company. If you have great communication skills, and a passion for troubleshooting and fixing issues in technology used by millions across the world, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical. Location: This is a globally remote role. This role deals with critical issues in the open source stack that require deep debugging and troubleshooting skills. Our engineers have to be able to work productively at any level of the stack above the kernel, in a wide range of applications, to understand and address the software issues at hand. Our group is critical to the success of our enterprise customers, partners and Ubuntu itself. You will be the final point of escalation for operational troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu.  What your day will look like - Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, Ceph and/or Kubernetes - Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams - Participate in upstream communities - Debug issues, propose workarounds, liaise with Software Engineers on producing a patch - Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques - Prioritize work and manage your time effectively against priorities - Participate in team activities to improve processes, tools, and documentation - Maintain clear, technical and concise communications - Participate in a regular weekend working rotation - Provide subject matter expertise as the final point of escalation on operational issues - Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences What we are looking for in you - Professional experience troubleshooting advanced Linux issues - Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar - Exceptionally strong experience with either Linux, LXD, OpenStack, Ceph or Kubernetes - Strong debugging experience with Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux - Ability to troubleshoot with gdb, pdb, tcpdump or other tools - Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches - An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Additional skills that you might also bring - You love technology and working with brilliant people - You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable - You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated - You have interest in, and experience with most of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems What we offer you We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. - Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! - Personal learning and devel

Help global companies embrace the latest private cloud infrastructure, Linux and cloud native operations, and open source applications. Our team applies expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Linux Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes and a wide range of associated technology. This role has very diverse responsibilities. The team members are Linux and cloud solutions architects for our customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs. They are the cloud consultants who work hands-on with the technologies by deploying, testing and handing over the solution to our support or managed services team at the end of a project. They are also software engineers who use Python to develop Kubernetes operators and Linux open source infrastructure-as-code. The people who love this role are developers who like to solve customer problems through architecture, presentations and training. Location: This role will be home based. What your day will look like - Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications - Work in Python to design and deliver open source code - Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, Hadoop and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) - Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights - Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values - Work from the comfort of your home - Global travel up to 25% of time for internal and external events What we are looking for in you - University degree in Computer Science or related software engineering expertise - You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph, etc. - You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking - You have Intermediate to Advanced level of Python programming skills - You are a dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people - You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning - Excellent communication and presentation skills (English) - You have great organisational skills and follow-up reliably on commitments - (Optional) You speak a second language What you’ll learn - OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure - Linux Ubuntu and networking knowledge - Wide range of open source applications and skills - Work directly with customers in a range of different businesses  - Real-life and hands-on exposure to a wide range of emerging technologies and tools  What we offer you We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven quarterly bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. - Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! - Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year - Annual compensation review - Recognition rewards - 40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods - Maternity and paternity leave - Employee Assistance Programme - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others - Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard

Ubuntu Linux, already the most popular Linux distribution in the world, is looking to increase its adoption even further by expanding the number of System On Chip (SoC) platforms supported natively and further optimising to ensure the highest performant experience for all users. There is a strong demand from silicon manufacturers such as NVIDIA, Xilinx, MediaTek, and Qualcomm to provide Ubuntu Linux to their customers and Canonical is looking to broaden its silicon enablement squads to meet this challenge. The Canonical Kernel Team - those responsible for the build, maintenance, and distribution of the Linux kernel for Ubuntu - are looking for individuals with a strong flair for software development at the hardware level and a passion for ensuring the most optimal performance the silicon can provide. The successful candidate will be able to prove a strong aptitude for software engineering at the hardware level. While direct experience with the Linux kernel would be a substantial advantage, it is not a hard requirement for candidates with prior background in other RTOS’ or bare-metal environments as long as direct hardware experience can be demonstrated. There are a number of work-from-home based roles available worldwide and we are looking for experience levels from early career candidates with a couple of years under their belt up through senior industry veterans. What your day will look like - Collaborate regularly and proactively with a globally distributed team - Work closely with our silicon vendor partners to integrate their platform support into the Ubuntu Linux kernel for their product ranges - Diagnose and resolve issues in the kernel reported by partners, customers, the community at large, and discovered by your own rigorous testing - Take responsibility for the delivery of distinct silicon-optimised variants of the Ubuntu Linux kernel to the world  - Improve tooling and automation for the delivery and test of Ubuntu Linux kernels - Submit, review, and apply kernel patches, working with both internal and external upstream maintainers - Identify new means of maximising performance on partner silicon What we are looking for in you - Well-organised and motivated self-starter able to thrive in a remote work environment - Professional manner with colleagues, business partners, and the open-source community - Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and verbal - Significant programming ability in C - Strong grasp of device drivers, BSP’s, and other aspects of hardware-level system engineering - Solid background with git - Understanding of operating system kernel fundamentals - Ability to travel twice a year for company events of up to two weeks length Additional skills that you might also bring - Python and Bash scripting ability - Prior background with the major SoC families - Ubuntu/Debian/Snap packaging - Demonstrated experience with Linux kernel patching and debugging - Solid understanding of performance optimisation for silicon platforms What we offer you We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. - Home-based 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 About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open so

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring an Alliances Field Engineer to help our biggest partners (companies like Intel, Nvidia, Google, Dell, HP, Accenture, Tata and the like) understand and embrace our open source platform for themselves and their customers. Our worldwide field engineering team apply expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps and a wide range of associated technologies. We are experts in the whole open source stack, from kernel to desktop, from cloud to the edge. Our team is also interested in business problems - building things reliably, efficiently and cost-effectively, and we have to learn to speak the language of our customers and their industries. We help global companies embrace public and private cloud infrastructure, cloud native operations, and open source applications. For this team we are looking for several Alliances Engineers to support OEM (hardware manufacturers), GSI (global system integrators), ISV (independent software vendors), Channel partners and Public Cloud alliance partners. You will support various alliances and partners of Canonical to adopt our products and technologies, help business leaders to define joint go-to-market programs with partners from the technical standpoint. We often say that our field engineers have 'the hardest job at Canonical' because customers can ask about any aspect of our solutions and products and expect a thoughtful, well-informed answer. We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers, regardless of our company interests, and field engineers are the people we trust to ensure that is true. Location : This is a home-based role, we are hiring worldwide. What your day will look like - Understand Ubuntu, Linux, networking and services in real-world environments - Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, OpenStack, Ceph, and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) - Architect and integrate popular open source software such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra and NGINX - Help partners to offer and architect joint solutions utilizing Canonical’s technologies on top of the public clouds and in the data center - Design and publish joint Reference Architectures and perform technical validations with various partners - Prepare and run onboarding sessions/workshops with various partners’ teams to promote Canonical products and solutions If you have a passion for the latest open source technologies, cloud-native development, data center technologies such as Kubernetes and computer networking, you will love the Alliances Engineer role at Canonical. What we are looking for in you  - Extensive experience with Linux (Ubuntu preferred), Kubernetes, Ceph, software automation - Experience designing and implementing solutions on top of public or private clouds - Python and bash understanding, troubleshooting skills - Fluent written and spoken English - Excellent communication and presentation skills - High motivation, ability to multi-task and follow-up reliably on commitments - Interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating and understanding customer environment and needs - Interest in new te

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring a Software Engineer, Sustaining Engineering for ... ...a fast-paced engineering role in Linux-based software-defined infrastructure and applications, covering all layers of the stack, including bare metal, virtualization (KVM) and containerization (Docker/LXC/LXD), storage (Ceph and Linux filesystems), networking (OVS, OVN and Core networking), up to OpenStack and Kubernetes, and the open source applications running on top of them. It will challenge you to show the breadth of engineering skill needed to work on almost any aspect of Ubuntu and the open source things people run with it.  This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and open source to build a career with Canonical and drive success for our customers, community and the company. If you have an affinity for open source development, great communication skills, and a passion for troubleshooting and fixing issues in technology used by millions across the world, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical. Location: This is a remote role, we have teams in all time zones. This role deals with critical issues in the open source stack that require software engineering for upstream bug fixes. Our engineers have to be able to work productively at any level of the stack above the kernel, in a wide range of languages, to understand and address the software issues at hand. Our group is critical to the success of our enterprise customers, partners and Ubuntu itself. You will help with troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and bug fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu. This role entails - Resolving complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software - Maintaining a close working relationship with Canonical's Field, Support and product engineering teams - Participating in upstream communities - Developing bug fixes, backporting patches, and working with upstream for inclusion - Reviewing code produced by other engineers - Demonstrating good judgement in technical methods and techniques - Prioritizing work and managing your time effectively against those priorities - Participating in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation - Maintaining clear, technical and concise communications - Working from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences What we are looking for in you - Professional experience as a software engineer  - Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar - Strong experience with Linux, and at least one of the following: - Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies - Strong development-level experience with at least one of Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux - Ability to troubleshoot with debugging tools like gdb - Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches - An exceptional academic track record  - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Nice-to-have skills - You love technology and working with brilliant people - You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable - You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thou

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. This is a general track for Senior+ (Senior/Staff/Principal) Engineers in any team at Canonical. After the first round of interviews we will establish which teams might be an excellent fit, and progress your application with them. At Canonical a Senior+ Engineer is not only an outstanding software architect and coder, they also demonstrate the leadership qualities needed to rally a team or department to ship outstanding products. A Senior+ Engineer partners with other Engineering leaders (Managers, Directors, VPs) to take joint responsibility for outcomes at team, department and company level. We hire based on academic results and proven execution, and we select those with a passion for open-source software, innovation, and cutting-edge technology. In this role, you will make a significant contribution in Canonical's portfolio through high-quality code, technical leadership, team motivation and direction, exceptional design, and crisp documentation. As a Senior+ Engineer you'll drive the architecture, design and evolution of high-impact open source software. Our teams work at every level of the stack. From the kernel and system software at the core of Ubuntu through to major language runtimes and the bleeding-edge of cloud automation and distributed systems, you'll have the opportunity to work on complex but highly rewarding projects. Our teams also build the services which deliver Ubuntu to the world, on cloud, devices, servers and PCs. Additionally, this role will give you the opportunity to engage with the broader open-source community. We're looking for individuals who can help build a thriving community, contribute to a broad range of technologies, and ensure seamless software operations at scale. Location: we have remote opportunities for Senior Engineers in every time zone. The role entails - Leading design and architecture of an impactful open source project - Coding in Golang, Rust, Python, C/C++ or Typescript / React - Collaborating proactively with a globally distributed team - Mentoring, developing and advising colleagues in their career progression  - Displaying technical leadership in Canonical and our communities  - Debugging issues and producing high-quality code to fix them  - Contributing to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind  - Working from home with global travel twice annually for company events  What we are looking for in you - 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 - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations - Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace - Deep experience with at least one of Go, Rust, Python or C  - Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance - Excellent communication skills including professional written and spoken English  - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability  - Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each Nice-to-have skills Depending on your eventual team, you might also bring experience with - Container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubern

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Web/UI Engineer to develop a data-rich and reliable user experience. These frontends are constructed using JS, CSS, React, and Flutter, and serve as Canonical’s enterprise products that act as the company's face to our users.  In order to create consistency across our products and sites, we have a central team that builds an open-source  React toolkit and presentation layer, the Vanilla Framework . We are excited to develop this further and see if we can help more open-source projects build performant and accessible interfaces that respond well to diverse layouts. We use REST APIs for communication, and we consider API design an important part of the process. Flutter is a new front-end technology that has the potential to unify our desktop and web development. We are growing the team's exposure to Flutter and have roles on both web and Ubuntu engineering for this specialism. We hire developers with outstanding academic results and a passion for open-source software, innovation, and cutting-edge web technologies. In these roles, you will have the opportunity to make significant contributions through high-quality, front-end and back-end code while exhibiting technical leadership, exceptional design, and intuitive user experience. Additionally, we encourage colleagues to engage with the broader open-source community. We're looking for individuals who can help build a thriving community, contribute to a broad range of technologies, and ensure seamless software operations at scale. Location : This is a Globally remote role. The role entails - Design and implement well-tested and documented software in Web technologies or Flutter. - Debug and fix issues encountered by your users - Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews - Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications - Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind - Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices - Deploy and operate services developed by the team - Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy What we are looking for in you - 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 - Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations - Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule - Professional manner in interacting with colleagues, partners, and community - Experience designing and writing high-quality Web technologies - Experience with and passion for Typescript, React or Flutter - An eye for accessibility and performance - Professional written and spoken English  - Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)  - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability  - Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation  - Excellent communication and presentation skills  - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments  - Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each Nice-to-have skills - Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes - Attention to detail concernin

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. This is a general track role, hiring for every team at Canonical who works in Python, across all levels of seniority. Apply here if you believe you are already an outstanding Python engineer. Canonical works across the entire open source spectrum. Canonical Ubuntu is well-known as a developer favourite and enterprise-friendly Linux. Our web services and system utilities are often written in Python, which we choose where collaboration with other teams, ecosystems and communities is more important than raw performance. We hire Python Developers with a passion for open-source software, innovation, and cutting-edge technologies. We also look for colleagues who understand that a great product is more than code – it is ready for the unexpected, it is well documented, it is comprehensively tested, it is tastefully presented in its CLI or GUI. At Canonical, you will have the opportunity to make significant contributions through high-quality, idiomatic Python code. Your team will own a product that may comprise several codebases. These may be intended to run on servers, or on Kubernetes, or on the desktop, or as web services for Ubuntu clients. They may be utilities or frameworks or tools, or part of our production process. Additionally, this role will give you the opportunity to engage with the broader open-source community. We're looking for individuals who can help build a thriving community, contribute to a broad range of technologies, and ensure seamless software operations at scale. Location: we have remote Python engineering roles in every time zone. What your day will look like - Write high-quality, well-designed and well-tested Python software  - Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team  - Display technical leadership at Canonical and in our communities  - Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them  - Contribute to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind  - Work from home with global travel twice a year for company events What we are looking for in you - 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 - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations - Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule - Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community - Experience writing thoroughly designed, modern, maintainable Python  - Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance - Professional written and spoken English  - Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)  - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability  - Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation  - Excellent communication and presentation skills  - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments  - Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each Additional skills that you might also bring - Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes  - Understanding of build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation  - Additional languages, particularly Golang or Rust, C or C++ -

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring engineering leaders to work across the breadth of our Ubuntu Engineering organisation - leaders who care deeply for quality, performance and resilience in software, and have a proven track record for building, nurturing and developing high performing engineering teams. This leadership track includes roles for managers and Senior+ engineers alike. At Canonical, managers are expected to stay technical and close to the code, and our Senior+ engineers lead and develop software projects, as well as the processes and people around them.  Our teams integrate the freshest open source software, provide robust upgrade paths and engineer the future of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not just the world’s most deployed open source operating system, it's a platform that enables innovation for millions of users across the globe. Our community represents the full breadth of the developer experience; from students, hobbyists and freelancers to high performance engineering and creative teams in corporate and academic environments. The four key teams that ship Ubuntu are the  - Foundations : maintaining foundational software: architectures, package managers, compilers, toolchains, bootloaders, filesystems and core utilities - Server: leading the design, evolution and future of our Ubuntu Server distribution - Desktop: driving Ubuntu Desktop, our future immutable desktop: Ubuntu Core Desktop, WSL, gaming technology, and a suite of modern applications for the desktop crafted with Flutter - Debcrafters: a new team responsible for the forward movement, maintenance and overall health of the Ubuntu archive: one of the most abundant repositories of open source software available today You'll be accountable for your technical roadmap, and responsible for your team: helping them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and have a great time while doing it. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution At Canonical, you will have the opportunity to engage with and contribute to the broader open source community. We're looking for individuals who can help build a thriving community and contribute with enthusiasm and precision to a broad range of technologies Location : We have remote roles open in every time zone. The role entails Based on the first round of interviews, we identify specific teams where you might be an excellent fit and conduct second-round interviews with those teams. Our leads are: - Leading their teams in elevating the Linux developer and user experience  - Designing, building and shipping high quality, performant software in Rust, Go and Python - Demonstrating sound engineering principles through architecture, development and code reviews - Taking responsibility for planning, estimation and execution - Working with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu - Setting expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders - Offering coaching, mentoring, technical feedback and hands-on career development

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring  Golang engineers of all levels of seniority, for all relevant teams at Canonical. Apply here if you are an exceptional software engineer who prefers to work in Go. After the first round of interviews we’ll find the best fit product team at Canonical for you to progress your application based on your personal interests. Canonical prefers Golang for software where performance and security are primary considerations. We also have substantial projects in Python, C, C++ and are starting to invest in Rust. For front-end development we prefer React and Flutter. Golang is an essential language for our engineering teams, who build the systems that deliver Ubuntu to the world. From our software distribution systems, to those which build and test every possible kind of open source on every architecture, from our systems management tools to our distributed systems operations R&D, we count on Golang for its tasteful concurrency and developer ecosystem. Juju, Livepatch, LXD, MAAS, Microk8s, Snapd, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Pro, and many more Canonical offerings include Golang components. We also want to ensure that Ubuntu is the very best platform for Golang development, offering easy access to the widest range of tooling and capabilities that support cutting edge open source and enterprise development. Join us in our mission to deliver innovative open-source solutions to individuals and enterprises around the world. We expect the highest engineering standards and strong motivation to get things done well in a fully remote and distributed environment. These roles require extensive personal experience with Linux - the more different versions of Linux the better! Location : we have open roles for Golang engineers in every time zone The role entails - Design and implement well-tested and documented software in Go - Debug and fix issues encountered by your users - Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews - Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications - Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices - In some cases, deploy and operate services developed by the team - Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy What we are looking for in you - 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 - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations - Well-organized, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule - Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community - Experience designing and writing high-quality Golang software on Linux - Experience with and passion for Linux at the system level - For more senior roles, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs - Professional written and spoken English  - Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)  - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability  - Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation  - Excellent communication and presentation skills  - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments  - Ability to travel twice a

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We have created a new career path at Canonical for Performance Engineers who bring exceptional clarity to software performance, correctness and efficiency. We are adding these roles to every engineering team at the company. As an open source platform, we have teams that work at every level of the software stack - from the kernel up through server and desktop applications, all the way to the web. We are adding roles with this focus in every engineering team in the company, to act as drivers of performance engineering skills, tools, culture and insights to our entire product range . We have also created a central performance engineering team, where we will drive shared tools, dashboarding capabilities, measurement frameworks, analytical capabilities and skills. We call this career focus ' percorr ' because we have found that the same deep insights that enable sophisticated performance measurement and design also enable teams to improve their harnesses and frameworks for correctness. Understanding not only the application, but the runtime, the compiler, and the system, all the way down to the CPU, gives an engineer the ability to think creatively and with insight about the right things to measure, and the right ways to verify correctness. We have found that performance engineers will often improve the deepest and trickiest areas of our test harnesses, and unblock their teams to test and measure previously 'dark' aspects of their work. We also have teams that work with every major silicon vendor and cloud, with a particular emphasis on performance optimisation of the entire stack for that architecture, CPU family or hypervisor. Our goal is to ensure that Ubuntu users can select whatever platform they want for their workloads and know they have access to the very best performance and efficiency across the entire stack from kernel to codec. If they wish, we will enable performance and correctness engineers to move between products every two years, so that they have the opportunity to raise the bar for performance in an array of products over time, and also that teams have the benefit of fresh eyes on their processes, thinking, harnesses, dashboards and code. Our performance and correctness leads are expected to be truly exceptional individuals, and also leaders who are confident setting expectations of change, sharing insights and skills, running initiatives and programs. There is no way to move a meaningful codebase without also moving the people behind it. This is a career path for perfectionists and precision artists. Whether you have a particular language focus - C, C++, Rust, Golang, Python, Java, Flutter-Dart or others - or a particular love of the kernel or hardware or CPU instruction set, whether you see yourself as driving perceived user experience through performance or optimising the efficiency of data centers to reduce carbon footprint, this process is the best way to find a role at Canonical that speaks to your precision, rigour, insight and drive. Location : We have teams in every time zone, and can accommodate applications from almost any country. Nice-to-have skills we value - Low-level CPU insights and assembly language - understanding cache, registers, vectorization, memory - Kernel performance insights - sch

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company. Canonical's Store team develops and operates a large system of backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are built primarily in Python, with a bit of Golang. We have some exciting challenges ahead including continuing to scale our production architecture, significantly expanding the range of software we can deliver through the system powering our marketplaces, and enhancing our offering for the booming world of IoT and for large Enterprise solutions. If you have a passion for clean APIs, have a bias towards shipping, and believe that automated tests are the key to higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in. What you’ll do - Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team. - Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang). - Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale. - Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers. - Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions. - Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events. Who you are - You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python. - You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure. - You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them. - You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform. - You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree. - You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people. - You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable. - You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated. About Canonical Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu -- the world’s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique tech company - global, remote-first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries - we want to be the world’s best, not biggest, global software company. With almost every team remote by default, Canonical sets the pace on the 21st-century digital workplace. What Canonical offers: Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard