Jobs at Canonical

What you will do

• Design and implement features across the Mir stack
• Assist in debugging, tracking down and fixing issues
• Improve tests and performance benchmarks to catch issues early
• Create documentation to enhance the developer experience
• Engage with the open source community and commercial partners
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team

Required skills and experience

• You have excellent, modern C++ programming taste
• You have a rigorous approach to software design, development and testing
• You have a solid understanding of asynchronous programming and concurrency patterns
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills to document and present software developed
• You are productive collaborating remotely and are highly motivated and organized
• You are familiar with Linux as a development and deployment platform
• You have proven ability to consistently deliver robust code to production
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience with the Wayland protocol ecosystem and compositors
• Familiarity with a range of Linux Desktop Environments
• Familiarity with OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics and animation frameworks
• You have experience developing and deploying on a Ubuntu/Debian system

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What your day will look like

• Manage a distributed team of engineers and its observability portfolio
• Organize and lead the team’s processes in order to help it achieve its objectives
• Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members
• Identify and measure team health indicators
• Interact with a vibrant community
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Attend conferences to represent Canonical and its MLOps solutions
• Mentor and grow your direct reports, helping them achieve their professional goals
• Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events 

What we are looking for in you

• A proven track record of professional experience of software delivery
• Professional python development experience, preferably with a track record in open source
• A proven understanding of the machine learning space, its challenges and opportunities to improve
• Experience designing and implementing MLOps solutions
• 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

The following skills may be helpful to you in the role, but we don't expect everyone to bring all of them.

• Hands-on experience with machine learning libraries, or tools.
• Proven track record of building highly automated machine learning solutions for the cloud.
• Experience with building machine learning models
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience in the Linux and open-source software world
• Working knowledge of cloud computing
• Passionate about software quality and testing
• Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project -- even if that is community open source contributions.
• Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions

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• The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They prefer to work in an environment that emphasises ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation. They love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.
• This role sits in the marketing team reporting to the product marketing lead.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

What your day will look like

• Be responsible for go-to-market planning and execution for Canonical's range of MLOps and data products
• Lead on content dissemination, campaign development and planning for product launches.
• You will lead on the development of compelling messaging and positioning that emphasizes business value and connects with target audiences throughout the buying journey
• Conceiving and executing customer base communications and marketing programs to upsell and cross sell into our large base of customers
• Collaborating with demand generation teams, utilizing data and insights to create and improve strategies that drive traffic to our content, optimizing marketing funnels
• Work with other teams to plan event, webinars and support paid and social media promotion
• Create and execute content strategies that drive product interest and adoption with relevant target audiences 
• Monitoring the competitive landscape to define product positioning that differentiates

What we are looking for in you

• Experience in a product marketing function for enterprise IT products (SaaS experience preferred)
• Passion for the AI and data marketing
• Strong inter-personal management skills.
• Proven analytical skills, able to assess opportunities and make decisions on ROI/advantages of programs & investments.
• Appetite to deliver strong results and innovation.
• Growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risk.
• Willingness to roll up their sleeves.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work and thrive in a self-starter, fast-paced and changing environment
• Love for diverse work assignments and the opportunity to try new approaches