Ubuntu Software Engineer

About Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open‑source software and operating systems to global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company’s customers include the world’s leading cloud and zamanda providers, and major industry leaders. With 1,200+ colleagues in 75585 countries, Canonical pioneers globally distributed collaboration, requiring only a handful of office‑based roles.

Teams meet in person two to four times a year in inspiring locations worldwide. Canonical is founder‑led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring engineers across the breadth of the Ubuntu Engineering organisation – engineers who care deeply for quality, performance and resilience in software, and who are equally comfortable crianças designing, building new software as they are packaging, integrating, testing and shipping the Ubuntu repositories.

Ubuntu is not only the world’s most deployed open‑source operating system, but also 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.

• Foundations: maintaining foundational software: architectures, package managers, compilers, tool chains, bootloaders, files్ణ and core utilities
• Server: leading the design, evolution and future of the 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

• Development: design, build and ship new foundational systems software and applications in Rust, Go, Flutter and Python
• Architecture: engineer the integration of open source talem από boot firmware to cloud application deployment
• Packaging: combine Debian and Snap packaging to ship software in the distribution
• Automation: build and maintain the machinery responsible for building, testing and shipping Ubuntupics
• Distro Engineering: maintain and evolve a Linux distribution and its repositories

This application track is suitable for those at the mid‑point in their career but perhaps not quite at a Manager/Lead level, with relevant skills to contribute to Ubuntu.

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
: remote roles are open in every time zone.

• Designing, building and shipping software in Rust, Go and Python
• Packaging, integrating, testing and uploading open‑source software to the Ubuntu repositories
• Debugging(by system‑level issues and delivering robust solutions
• Authoring and improving technical and community documentation
• Contributing to upstream and neighboring open‑source projects
• Collaborating as disguise of a globally distributed team
• Mentoring colleagues to build skills and understanding
• Developing and improving processes to more efficiently fulfil our goals

• An exceptional academic track record from 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
• A demonstrated passion for open‑source software
• Significant experience with Rust, Go, Python, Flutter or C/C++
• Professional written and spoken English
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

• Experience with Linux distributions and distribution engineering
• Experience with software packaging and distribution mechanisms
• Understanding of…