Canonical - Jobs

Canonical is a technology company that focuses on open-source software solutions and is the driving force behind Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution. They offer job opportunities, such as for an entry-level communications specialist, to support their mission in the tech industry.

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👥 1001-5000💰 $12,800,000 Crowdfunding almost 12 years agoInternet of Things Open Source Cloud Computing Linux Software

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🔥 Software Engineer - L3 Support

Posted about 6 hours ago

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

Experience with Linux and open source software
Experience with at least one of Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux
A drive to learn unfamiliar technology and deep-dive difficult issues
Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

💡 Responsibilities

Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software
Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's Field, Support and product engineering teams
Participate in upstream communities
Develop bug fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion
Review code produced by other engineers
Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques
Prioritize work and manage your time effectively against those priorities
Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
Maintain clear, technical and concise communications
Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences

Posted about 6 hours ago

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🔥 Community Engineer (multiple roles and seniority levels)

Posted 1 day ago

📍 Africa, Nairobi

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

Experience with developer tools and open source projects
Clear public record of accomplishments (talks, blog posts, GitHub, X, etc.)
Interest and experience with some of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, container technology
Experienced working with open source communities and understand the workflow of volunteer contributors
Experience in (technical) program management and have excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills

💡 Responsibilities

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
Nurture community contributions to Ubuntu
Engage with the Ubuntu community through Discourse, Matrix, social media, conferences, etc.
Represent Ubuntu via speaking engagements at events and conferences
Support the engagement by Canonical teams into the open source ecosystem

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🔥 IoT Solutions Architecture Manager

Posted 5 days ago

📍 Africa

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 IoT

🔧 Requirements

Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Extensive embedded Linux experience - Yocto or other
Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
Ability to manage a small team
Experience with customer engagements
Professional written and spoken English
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
An ability to communicate the business benefits of technology
An humble learner and quick study

💡 Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of Field engineers, ranging from graduate to senior, in the areas of Presales and Professional Services
Solve customer problems by promoting our technologies and being a trusted advisor
Work remotely in a single major time zone
Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
Identify and measure team health indicators
Implement disciplined engineering processes
Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders

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Posted 5 days ago

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🔥 Cloud Field Engineering Manager

Posted 7 days ago

📍 Africa, Nairobi

🧭 Permanent

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

Knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph, etc.
Practical knowledge of Linux and networking
Experience in technical presales
You are a dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Passion and a track record of developing and growing people
Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring engineers
Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
An exceptional academic track record from high school and, preferably, university as well
Willingness to travel up to 40% of the time. Field Engineers attend internal company events, external tech events and customer meetings.

💡 Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of Field engineers, ranging from graduate to senior, in the areas of Presales and Professional Services
Solve customer problems by promoting our technologies and being a trusted advisor
Work remotely in a single major time zone
Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
Identify and measure team health indicators
Implement disciplined engineering processes
Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders

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Posted 7 days ago

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🔥 Threat Intelligence Lead

Posted 12 days ago

📍 Middle East, Dubai

🧭 Permanent

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences

💡 Responsibilities

Build and own Canonical’s threat intelligence strategy
Build and maintain OSINT research environments
Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers

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Posted 12 days ago

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🔥 Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Core

Posted about 1 month ago

📍 Africa, Lagos

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

Experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
Experience with embedded software
Experience with Golang, C/C++, and Shell
Solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred

💡 Responsibilities

Build and lead a distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing toward your team’s goals
Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation

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Posted about 1 month ago

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🔥 Software Developer (Backend SaaS)

Posted about 1 month ago

📍 Canada

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python.
Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django.
Experience with databases, and ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus)
You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.

💡 Responsibilities

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernize the Landscape codebase
Demonstrate your strong commitment to code quality and automated testing
Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews
Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions
Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
Assist with release management during each development cycle
Collaborate with devops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical’s hosted Landscape

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🔥 Junior Ads Specialist

Posted about 1 month ago

📍 Middle East, Dubai

🧭 Permanent

🔍 Marketing

🔧 Requirements

Proficiency with all ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Meta...)
Familiarity with campaign tracking and analytics tools
Experience driving successful lead generation campaigns.
Experience with A/B testing and data-driven decision making.
Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams
Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality
A growth mindset - someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risks
Engagement with the latest trends in marketing technology
Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

💡 Responsibilities

Support marketing team members with setting up and monitoring paid ads campaigns
Monitor paid ads performance and budgets across the Marketing team
Build on automation and AI to improve paid ads performance
Develop Canonical's adtech stack to industry leading standard

Data AnalysisGoogle AnalyticsRESTful APIsLead GenerationDigital MarketingA/B testing

Posted about 1 month ago

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🔥 Senior Security Operations Engineer

Posted 2 months ago

📍 Africa, Lagos

🧭 Permanent

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

An exceptional academic track record
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
Previous professional experience working or leading a Security Operation Center
Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security
Expertise in threat modelling and risk management frameworks
Knowledge of security architecture and market-leading security tools
Experience contributing to, and consuming, threat intelligence feeds
Experience in security risk management frameworks such as NIST CSF and ISO27001

💡 Responsibilities

Implement and evolve Canonical's Security Operation Center
Analyse and improve Canonical's security architecture
Evaluate, select and implement new security tools and practices
Identify, contain and guide the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks
Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical SecOps practice
Contribute to open source threat intelligence initiatives
Drive threat modelling, table top exercises and other SecOps practices across Engineering, IS and Canonical
Develop Canonical SecOps learning and development materials
Publish blog posts, whitepapers and conference presentations
Identify, implement and track SecOps KPIs
Plan and deliver SecOps work in the framework of Canonical's agile engineering practice
Work with Security leadership to present information and influence change

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Posted 2 months ago

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🔥 Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

Posted 2 months ago

📍 Globally remote

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

🔧 Requirements

Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics or another STEM discipline with programming courses
Confidence to get started and deliver high quality code in one of Python, Rust, C/C++, Golang, JavaScript or Java
Experience with Ubuntu or another Linux distribution
Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
Result-oriented and organized, with the drive to meet commitments
Personal projects in technology and software engineering beyond the curriculum
Professional written and spoken English
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Personal responsibility and accountability
Thoughtfulness, self-awareness and the ability to reflect and develop
Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

💡 Responsibilities

Shaping the roadmap for your product at global sprints every six months
Focusing on design and user experience, even for developer tooling and command line apps
Writing high quality, resilient and performant code, potentially serving millions of demanding daily users
Working towards mastery of key programming languages and Linux system knowledge
Engaging with users and the open source community through code reviews and issue trackers
Responding to customer issues as a priority, develop an understanding of enterprise requirements
Developing skills and awareness of security in software design and implementation

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