Career Opportunities at Canonical

What you will do

• Build and lead a developer relations team at Canonical
• Gain a deep understanding of snaps, Juju charms, or Docker containers
• Grow the developer community by attracting software developers and ISVs to the platform
• Create content to scale up adoption, demonstrate best practices, and showcase new features
• Provide input to development teams at Canonical based on feedback from ISVs, developers, and the wider community
• Collaborate with software developers, product managers and technical writers on developing documentation
• Write ecosystem specific guides, tutorials, release notes, and white papers
• Curate existing documentation, performing periodic reviews, triage user feedback/bug reports and determine priorities for remedial work
• Engage with the community through various means, including discourse, IRC, social media, conferences, etc.
• Identify relevant influencers and devising plans on how to effectively engage with them
• Deliver training workshops in person and remotely
• Represent the platform via speaking engagements at industry events and community conferences

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• You have experience with developer tools and open source projects.
• You have a clear public record of accomplishments (talks, blog posts, GitHub, Twitter, etc).
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, container technology.
• You can work autonomously and assume full ownership of objectives as needed.
• You can be flexible with your time and enjoy working with new technology in a fast-paced environment.
• You are experienced working with open source communities and understand the workflow of volunteer contributors.

Nice to have

• Experience as a software developer
• Examples of contributions to the Ubuntu Community
• Experience with contributing to open source projects

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What You Will Do

• Collaborate proactively with multiple distributed teams
• Help engineering teams establish and achieve community engagement goals
• Establish consistency in community process, engagement, and interaction across engineering
• Influence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineers
• Spend a significant amount of time mentoring others and providing cross-team input
• Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events
• Collaborate with the developer advocates and PR teams at Canonical to promote Ubuntu and related technologies via blogs and social media.
• Identifying relevant influencers and devising plans on how to effectively engage with them.

Who You Are

• You have a long history and clear public record of community engagement, particularly with open source communities
• You are capable of representing Canonical / Ubuntu externally
• You have experience leading successful projects and teams
• You are an articulate communicator
• You are comfortable preparing and giving presentations
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You follow industry trends and new technologies
• You understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you do
• You have strong collaboration and influencing skills
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• BS/BA or equivalent in Computer Science, Technical Communication, English, or a related field

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What you will do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality content to promote and support community initiatives
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions to community problems
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• Potential opportunity to travel more if you wish
• Nurture community contributions to Ubuntu
• Engage with the Ubuntu community through AskUbuntu, IRC, social media, conferences, etc
• Represent Ubuntu via speaking engagements at events and conferences.

Who you are

• 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 experience with developer tools and open source projects
• You have a clear public record of accomplishments (talks, blog posts, GitHub, Twitter, etc).
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, container technology
• You can work autonomously and assume full ownership of objectives as needed
• You can be flexible with your time and enjoy working with new technology in a fast-paced environment
• You are experienced working with open source communities and understand the workflow of volunteer contributors
• Nice to have / optional:
  • Experience with community management
  • Experience with Developer advocacy
  • Experience as a software developer
  • Examples of contributions to the Ubuntu Community
  • Experience with contributing to open source projects

We offer

• Learning and Development opportunities and budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority pass for travel
• Flexible working option

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What you will do

• Gain a deep understanding of snaps, charms, debs and Docker images
• Grow the developer community by attracting software developers and ISVs to the platform
• Create content to scale up adoption, demonstrate best practices, and showcase new features
• Provide input to development teams at Canonical based on feedback from ISVs, developers, and the wider community
• Collaborate with software developers, product managers and technical writers
• Write ecosystem specific guides, tutorials, release notes, and white papers
• Curate existing documentation, performing periodic reviews, triage user feedback/bug reports and determine priorities for remedial work
• Engage with the community through various means, including discourse, IRC, social media, conferences, etc.
• Identify relevant influencers and devising plans on how to effectively engage with them
• Deliver training workshops in person and remotely
• Represent the platform via speaking engagements at industry events and community conferences

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are enthusiastic, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have experience with developer tools and open source projects
• You have a clear public record of accomplishments (talks, blog posts, GitHub, Twitter, etc)
• You have interest and experience with two or more of Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, container technology
• You can work autonomously and assume full ownership of objectives as needed
• You can be flexible with your time and enjoy working with new technology in a fast-paced environment
• You are experienced working with open source communities and understand the workflow of volunteer contributors

Nice to have

• Experience with community management
• Experience with developer advocacy
• Experience as a software developer
• Examples of contributions to the Ubuntu Community
• Experience with contributing to open source projects

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We expect you to have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related engineering field.
• Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.

Nice to have

• Experience developing and deploying for Ubuntu Linux in public clouds.
• Experience integrating authentication & authorization, financial, public cloud or marketplace systems.
• Experience with Salesforce development/integration or APEX.

We offer

• Learning and Development opportunities and budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority pass for travel
• Flexible working option

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We expect you to have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related engineering field.
• Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.

Nice to have

• Experience developing and deploying for Ubuntu Linux in public clouds.
• Experience integrating authentication & authorization, financial, public cloud or marketplace systems.
• Experience with Salesforce development/integration or APEX.

We offer

• Learning and Development opportunities and budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority pass for travel
• Flexible working option

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Key responsibilities

• Drive the architecture of internally developed and operated software solutions.
• Actively seek improvements to established processes, designs, and solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams.

We expect

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a relevant work experience.
• Experience as a software architect working on distributed and business critical systems.
• Experience with Golang and Python as a software engineer.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Excellent analytical skills and both verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.

Nice to have

• Experience from finance, sales, or e-commerce domains.

What Canonical offers

• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel

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We expect you to have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python.
• Experience as a hands-on engineering manager or a team lead.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.

Nice to have

• Experience developing for and deploying on Ubuntu Linux in public clouds.
• Experience integrating authentication & authorization, financial, public cloud or marketplace systems.
• Experience with Salesforce development/integration or APEX.

We offer

• Learning and development opportunities and personal budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority pass for travel

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We expect you to have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Senior-level experience as a software developer on Salesforce.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with other systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with diverse team members and stakeholders and remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.

Nice to have

• Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python.
• Experience in a business role such as sales, finance, or operations.

We offer

• Learning and development opportunities and personal budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority pass for travel

go to method of application »

We expect you to have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Experience with Salesforce development/integration or APEX.
• Experience as a hands-on engineering manager or a team lead.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment.
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.

Nice to have

• Experience developing for and deploying on Ubuntu Linux in public clouds.
• Experience integrating authentication & authorization, financial, public cloud or marketplace systems.
• Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python.

We offer

• Learning and development opportunities and personal budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority pass for travel