What your day will look like
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
- Oversee commercial engagements and support timely delivery on agreed project milestones
- Participate as technical lead on complex customer engagements involving complete system architectures
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Integrate and maintain platform-oriented software stacks
- Optimize Ubuntu for latest hardware platforms
- Display technical leadership internally and within our external communities
- Contribute to code reviews and technical documentation
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
What we are looking for in you
- 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
- Fluency in C, C++, and Python
- Experience with Linux and operational systems software (e.g. kernel or user space)
- Experience with Debian/Ubuntu or other distro packaging
- Experience leading software engineering teams
- Professional written and spoken English
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
Nice-to-have skills
- Experience working with open source communities and licenses
- Computer architecture knowledge of x86, ARM, RISC-V or s390x
- Understanding of build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation
- Experience working with customers
- Experience with board bring up and validation
- Experience with Linux virtualization, networking or graphics stacks
- Experience with one or more of the follow
- Experience with Docker/OCI containers/K8s
- ing technologies: confidential computing, RDMA, Infiniband and high performance computing.
- Performance engineering, benchmarking and profiling
What we offer you
- 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
- 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 an equal opportunity employer
