Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer

Overview Canonical

is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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. Location: remote opportunities for Senior Engineers in every time zone.

Role This is a general track for

Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer

in any team at Canonical. After the first round of interviews we will establish which teams might be a good fit and progress your application with them. As a Senior+ Engineer you are not only an outstanding software architect and coder, but you also demonstrate the leadership qualities needed to rally a team or department to ship outstanding products. You will partner with other Engineering leaders to take joint responsibility for outcomes at team, department and company level. You will contribute high-quality code, technical leadership, team motivation and direction, exceptional design, and crisp documentation as part of Canonical''s portfolio.

Responsibilities

Leading design and architecture of an impactful open source project

Coding in Go, 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 its communities

Debugging issues and producing high-quality code to fix them

Contributing to technical documentation to make it among the best in its kind

Working from home with travel to company events twice annually

Qualifications

An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about an 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 Kubernetes

Highly concurrent, distributed systems

Performance engineering – from kernel to web – benchmarks, optimization

Software security – fuzzing, tabletop threat models, analysis, audit

Build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation

Public clouds or OpenStack

Debian/Ubuntu packaging

Systems programming or scalable web services

Deep quality and test engineering

Web or Flutter front-end experience

REST and gRPC API experience

SQL and NoSQL data store expertise

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 recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. 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

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

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 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 globally and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence — in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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