Recruitment at Canonical

Canonical – We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it’s the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Solutions Architect – Alliances

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are hiring an Cloud Solutions Architect in our Alliances team to help our biggest partners (companies like Intel, Nvidia, Google, Dell, HP, Accenture, Tata and the like) understand and embrace our open source platform for themselves and their customers.
• Our worldwide field engineering team apply expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps and a wide range of associated technologies. We are experts in the whole open source stack, from kernel to desktop, from cloud to the edge. Our team is also interested in business problems – building things reliably, efficiently and cost-effectively, and we have to learn to speak the language of our customers and their industries.
• We help global companies embrace public and private cloud infrastructure, cloud native operations, and open source applications. For this team we are looking for several Alliances Engineers to support OEM (hardware manufacturers), GSI (global system integrators), ISV (independent software vendors), Channel partners and Public Cloud alliance partners. You will support various alliances and partners of Canonical to adopt our products and technologies, help business leaders to define joint go-to-market programs with partners from the technical standpoint.
• We often say that our field engineers have ‘the hardest job at Canonical’ because customers can ask about any aspect of our solutions and products and expect a thoughtful, well-informed answer. We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers, regardless of our company interests, and field engineers are the people we trust to ensure that is true.

What your day will look like

• Understand Ubuntu, Linux, networking and services in real-world environments
• Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like Kubernetes, Kubeflow, OpenStack, Ceph, and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Architect and integrate popular open source software such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra and NGINX
• Help partners to offer and architect joint solutions utilizing Canonical’s technologies on top of the public clouds and in the data center
• Design and publish joint Reference Architectures and perform technical validations with various partners
• Prepare and run onboarding sessions/workshops with various partners’ teams to promote Canonical products and solutions
• If you have a passion for the latest open source technologies, cloud-native development, data center technologies such as Kubernetes and computer networking, you will love the Alliances Architect role at Canonical.

What we are looking for in you 

• Extensive experience with Linux (Ubuntu preferred), Kubernetes, Ceph, software automation
• Experience designing and implementing solutions on top of public or private clouds
• Python and bash understanding, troubleshooting skills
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• High motivation, ability to multi-task and follow-up reliably on commitments
• Interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating and understanding customer environment and needs
• Interest in new technologies like LXD, Juju and Snaps
• Ability to travel globally up to 30% of the time
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related technical field experience.

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise 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
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Field Marketing Manager

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• 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 reports to the EMEA and Americas regional marketing team manager.

What your day will look like

• Develop and execute the regional go-to-market (GTM) strategy to generate demand and accelerate pipeline growth for specific assigned countries.
• Work closely with Sales Teams to align marketing efforts with revenue goals and regional business priorities.
• Plan and manage regional events, customer roundtables, and field marketing activities in close collaboration with sales and alliances teams.
• Own webinars and virtual events from strategy to execution, ensuring high engagement and lead conversion.
• Implement account-based marketing (ABM) programs targeting high-value enterprise accounts in the region.
• Develop and execute integrated campaigns across email, digital, social, and paid media to support regional sales objectives.
• Work with the CRM and Marketing Operations team to track and optimize marketing funnel performance.
• Collaborate with partner marketing teams to develop joint go-to-market (GTM) programs with strategic partners in the region.
• We expect members of the Canonical marketing team to be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, product managers, sales representatives and executives.

What we are looking for in you

• Experience in B2B marketing for enterprise IT products, SaaS experience
• Experience working with the EMEA markets
• Excellent academic results, with Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation skills in English
• Hands-on mindset and ability to test various marketing assumptions attributing to scaling the most efficient ways of achieving positive marketing results
• A growth mindset, always testing, learning, and optimizing marketing efforts.
• Objectivity and openness to others’ views while continuously building a positive team spirit
• Proven ability to prioritise and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise 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
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: IoT Solutions Architecture Manager

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are hiring an IoT Solutions Architecture Manager to lead a regionally-focused team of Field engineers in Presales and Professional Services activities, by helping customers with solution architecture, design and delivery.
• You will therefore need to be located in one of those three Geos to manage that specific team that spans few timezones from you
• Our Internet of Things mission is to enable companies to make fleets of very secure connected devices. Canonical provides the base Ubuntu OS and kernel, with secure update and management mechanisms. Our customers create mission-critical control systems, gateways and appliances that need to meet stringent quality and security requirements, and we aspire to bring this level of security to the wider consumer electronics and device market.
• Our Field Engineers are thought leaders helping our customers solve hard problems.
• They are accomplished technologists that take a hands-on approach to embedded Linux strategy and delivery.
• They have a passion to help customers achieve ambitious technical and business goals, and to show how the Canonical approach to open source and connected devices brings best-of-breed thinking to the emerging field of edge compute.
• They also care to develop their colleagues, helping them deepen their understanding of the technology, their ability to manage time, and their awareness of customer business thinking for continuous improvement and personal development.
• This career opportunity requires a unique blend of skills. Successful candidates will know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters.
• They will have experience of low-level Linux boot, BIOS, firmware and embedded software development methodologies.
• They also enjoy the pace of change and diversity of client engagements with driven and ambitious technology entrepreneurs. Competitive, business-focused technologists at heart, they are also team drivers that take pride in team and company wins.

The role entails

• 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

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Bachelor’s 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
• A humble learner and quick study
• Other desirable traits include RTOS experience, additional languages (both the programming and human kinds), and previous experience working in a remote-first, diverse, distributed company.

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise 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
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Embedded Linux Field Engineering Manager

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

The role entails

• 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

What we are looking for in you

• 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
• Other desirable traits include RTOS experience, additional languages (both the programming and human kinds), and previous experience working in a remote-first, diverse, distributed company.

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise 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
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Information Systems – Open Source Technical Architect

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

The role entails

• Define, get buy-in and implement the holistic vision of a world class internal cloud
• Setup, maintain and update the technical design roadmap and guidelines for the SREs within IS, with the aim of improving reliability, resilience, operational scalability, and technical scalability
• Collaborate with, and provide the cloud-ops software development teams with input for roadmap, requirements and prioritization to build a world-class, highly standardized and automated operation
• Provide the IS management with input and advice with regards to technology, reliability, resilience and business cases
• Lead technical choices to implement solutions as self-service products, ensuring scalable operation
• Collaborate with product security as well as operations security to set best practice and mitigate new threats in a timely manner
• Automate operations for reuse across the world’s largest companies, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems
• Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures
• Analyze incidents and events, and establish what the reason behind the reasons are, and what structural improvements can be made to minimize the chance of them reoccurring

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies & operation
• Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls, internet transit and large scale/bandwidth networking.
• Experience dealing with significant production outages, incident response and postmortems
• A passion for writing, sharing, and maintaining enterprise open-source software solutions
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person
• Be familiarized and passionate about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian

Nice-to-have skills:

• Modern software engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile)
• Hands-on experience of automatic administration of enterprise Linux servers at scale

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise 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
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Web Frontend Engineer – JS, CSS, React, Flutter

Location: Nigeria

The role entails

• Design and implement well-tested and documented software in Web technologies or Flutter.
• Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
• Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
• Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications
• Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
• Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
• Deploy and operate services developed by the team
• Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy

What we are looking for in you

• An 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
• Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
• Professional manner in interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
• Experience designing and writing high-quality Web technologies
• Experience with and passion for Typescript, React or Flutter
• An eye for accessibility and performance
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
• Attention to detail concerning user-centric UI development
• REST API design, development and governance
• Performance engineering and security experience.

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 recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager – Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure

Location: Nigeria

Description

• Our mission is to build a next-generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data center scale cloud that ‘just works’ and provides a mission-critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments.
• We’re hiring engineering managers with experience in high-quality microservice architectures and high-performance team leadership who also have deep familiarity with Linux kernel, virtualisation, storage and networking.
• LXD components span the entire software stack from low-level kernel features to the upper level management API/CLI. Our most effective engineers are fluent in all these layers, and able to anticipate the consequences of design and engineering choices elsewhere in a complex distributed system.
• As an engineering manager at Canonical you must have a solid technical background, but your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage.
• You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role.
• You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• The successful candidate will have experience leading successful, collaborative engineering teams, and demonstrate the ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems and deep knowledge of Linux.
• Location: This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.

Responsibilities
What you will focus on:

• Lead a team of remote engineers
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices
• Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events.

Requirements
What we are looking for in you:

• You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high-quality software
• You have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You have experience programming in C and/or Go.

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 recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Graduate / Associate Software Engineer – Build & Release Infrastructure

Location: Nigeria

Description

• Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineer with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team.
• Launchpad is a platform for managing open-source development projects. It includes code hosting and review, bug tracking, package building, translations, and other facilities used by free and open-source software developers.  It provides essential development and collaboration infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.
• Launchpad is a mature project, mainly written in Python (primarily Zope, with some Flask).  You’ll be striking a balance between keeping our business-critical services running and expanding our feature set: among other things, we are currently working on expanding our package building capabilities, improving the development flows provided to our users, and modernising our web UI.
• If you love keeping large projects well-organised and well-maintained, care about supporting developers, and believe that continuous improvement is the key to innovation, higher velocity, and reliability, you’ll fit right in.
• Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
• This is a remote role based in the EMEA region. Candidates will be expected to be located within this region.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do:

• Proactively collaborate within and contribute to design, architecture, and feature-selection for solutions across distributed teams
• Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests
• Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events

Requirements
Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You love technology, working with brilliant people, and solving interesting problems
• You are a strategic thinker
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have proficiency delivering robust code to production, preferably written in Python.
• You have experience and enjoy maintaining and improving large and mature web applications.
• You have experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modelling.
• You have an interest in, or experience with, integration, infrastructure and operations.
• You believe that robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery.
• You have familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• You have a solid understanding of the structure of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Design Manager (Infrastructure)

Location: Nigeria (Remote)

Summary

• We are hiring a senior design manager to play a key role making open source software available to the world.
• Our Design function ensures the experience of the software and infrastructure we build is true to our intentions, and delivers the tools our community and customers need.
• The Design Manager makes this possible through leadership within, and beyond, our teams.
• As a Senior Design Manager, you bring both experience managing design teams and have expertise in a deeply technical domain.
• This enables you to coach designers in creating tools for developers and cloud engineers, and cross-context to move towards tangible outcomes and lift the quality of their work.
• You will manage expectations and ensure deadlines are met in a timely manner against your roadmap.
• You will be able to communicate clearly and actively listen to product and engineering stakeholders, and your team, to drive sustainable quality improvements and guide individuals towards meaningful growth.
• Leading the Infrastructure Design team, you will take responsibility for the products that help to build cloud experiences and software distribution mechanisms, and you will help to evolve the security of how software is packaged and delivered.

The role entails

• Reviewing the work of your design team for quality
• Working with individual designers to support their professional growth
• Continuously improving operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering
• Working with stakeholders, especially the Engineering organization, to clearly define and validate outcomes
• Evolving design systems and guidelines to drive consistent quality and improve efficiency
• Coordinating with the rest of design leadership to mature our collective practice
• Bringing your team and others together to share their work and strengthen culture
• Engaging the open source community to learn and make the value of our work legible.

What we are looking for in you

• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology
• Exceptional educational achievements in design or related behavioral science discipline
• Full lifecycle experience from user needs discovery through validation and implementation guidance
• Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines
• Experience of managing a team that interacts with technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with quantitative optimisation approaches
• A passion for balancing consistency and innovation
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Performance engineering and security experience
• Experience with Airbyte, Ranger, Temporal, or Trino.

What we offer colleagues

• Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills.
• In addition to the benefits below, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation.
• Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
• In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
• Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Billing System Engineering Manager

Location: Nigeria

Description

• This engineering management role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Ubuntu to build a career with Canonical and drive the success of the business. If you have an affinity for open source development, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.
• The Commercial Systems unit has several areas of responsibility spread across six engineering teams, closely collaborating with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and Salesforce plays an integral role in it.
• The Billing team’s mission is to develop an internal billing system, delivering a consistent billing experience to all Canonical customers across all products and services, and across all service delivery methods.
• This challenging assignment requires close cooperation with business departments to ensure our customers are billed accurately and reliably, while achieving the highest engineering standards expected of any engineering team at Canonical.
• We are looking for an engineering manager with prior engineering experience in a high-level programming language, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, continuously develops their skills, and applies them at work.
• This is an exciting opportunity to work on a fairly unique solution and build expertise in billing and finance. This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

Responsibilities
What your day will look like:

• Lead, mentor, and hire a team of software engineers
• Seek improvements to established processes, designs, and engineering solutions
• Partner with business customers to understand business needs
• Collaborate on business analysis and technical designs
• Deliver engineering solutions

Requirements
What we are looking for in you:

• Experience as a software developer in a high-level language – preferably Go or Python
• Experience as a hands-on engineering manager or a team lead
• Experience designing or implementing billing systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment
• Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels

Additional skills that you might also bring:

• Experience with Salesforce or NetSuite
• Experience in a business role such as sales, finance, or operations
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related Engineering field.

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.
• 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Software Engineer – Go – Container Images

Location: Remote

Job Summary

• In this role, you’ll be developing the tools and technology for building and maintaining this new generation of container images. You’ll be working with multiple teams, both inside and outside Canonical, to ensure we deliver container images with the highest quality whilst maintaining a seamless Ubuntu user experience.
• You will also be highly involved in the implementation and maintenance of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation around these container images, for which you are expected to demonstrate deep insights into container-based DevOps.
• You will be contributing to fast-moving products like Rocks (OCI images) and Chisel, and thus have the chance to help steer and consolidate this new team. You’ll gain experience with numerous container technologies and participate in exciting and exploratory tasks, where your feedback will be critical for the decision-making process.
• As an engineer, your seniority will be based on your software development background and ability to lead junior team members.
• Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical. This is an exciting opportunity for experienced software engineers looking for a place to leave their mark, who are passionate about shaping an open source product with the highest quality, with and for the community!

This role entails

• Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images
• Work on automated Ci/CD processes for building, testing and publishing our container images
• Write tools and tests for assessing security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
• Work in Go to deliver new functionalities to our container-building tools
• Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
• Provide technical feedback for the team’s decision-making process
• Engage with the open-source community as a subject-matter expert
• Grow our knowledge base and write documentation
• Work in a collaborative, agile and globally distributed environment
• Mentor and help hiring
• Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events

What we are looking for in you

• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You are a team player and have experience in collaborative development
• You have worked with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, etc.)
• You have a track record of delivering timely, high-quality software
• You have experience with container images and containerised operations
• You master at least one container management/orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• You have significant experience with Go
• You are experienced with Linux systems administration and package management
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical concepts
• You bring clarity to technical and engineering discussions
• You are someone who strongly believes that sharing is caring, and knowledge is power
• Your skills range from those of a Graduate to a mid-senior Software Engineer
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.

What We Offer Colleagues

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Junior UX Designer

Location: Remote

Job Summary

• We are hiring a Junior UX Designer for our Design Team. Junior UX Designers at Canonical have a vital role in the success of Ubuntu, the Canonical developer experience and our Infrastructure and Enterprise products.
• There is an expectation of growth in order to deliver outstanding UX experiences and take ownership of the design of your product.
• Our design team is on a mission to turn complex, open-source software into efficient, intuitive products that can change how complex systems are built and what open source is capable of for enterprise IT. We are looking for a talented and passionate user experience designer, who shares our ambitions.

The role entails

• Working with the open source community and Canonical customers to research new features and improvements
• Collaborating with product managers and engineers to shape the future of Canonical products
• Engaging with the design team to keep our efforts aligned with product strategy and best practices
• Working to evolve and evangelise design systems that drive consistency and efficiency
• Understanding the broader scope of your work and its numerous interconnected constraints
• Supporting one of our working groups to enable Canonical design’s horizontal efforts

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology and design
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement – curious, flexible, scientific
• Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
• Confidence in user research practices
• Engagement with the latest design research and innovation
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
• UX designers should be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, designers and executives.
• They represent us at cross-functional company meetings and must present their design position with clarity and precision.
• They should be confident and excited to take on complex design challenges. They should also be able to connect their design leadership to the strategic vision of the company.

What We Offer Colleagues

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Accountant

Location: Remote

Job Summary

• We are looking for an exceptional Accountant with IFRS experience to help us ready the business for public market scrutiny through our planned IPO.
• The right candidate will have domain expertise and a passion for IFRS.

What your day will look like

• Assist in the month end reporting process to deliver timely and accurate information
• Have full responsibility for a part of the ledger processes relevant to your strengths
• Assist with the year end audit process and statutory reporting
• Support the finance team’s wider plans to prepare for an IPO
• Improve the efficiency of financial processes and procedures and monitor compliance
• Share knowledge between team members to ensure cover is available when needed
• Actively develop your own skills to ensure current knowledge of applicable standards and regulations
• Establish strong relationships with key colleagues outside the wider finance team

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record and subsequent career performance
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent
• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CPA, etc.)
• Experience at a large public accounting firm, or public multinational corporate accounting department preferred
• NetSuite or similar enterprise grade systems experience
• Willingness to travel up to four times per year.

What We Offer Colleagues

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Executive Assistant

Location: Remote

Description

• We are hiring a Senior Executive Assistant who will be responsible for crucial projects and at least one senior executive and their leadership team.
• The ideal candidate is passionate about organising, taking ownership to make sure that the business runs smoothly and that travel, expenses and events are efficiently and correctly managed.
• They have a drive to continually improve themselves, the team and the organisation. The EA team is integral to the overall operation of our unique global business.
• The team runs significant business operations and processes, supporting various department leads as well as being centrally responsible for logistics, expenses, travel and scheduling. Executive assistants are the secret to our success!
• The ideal candidate possesses integrity and accountability and embraces change. They can operate at a very senior level and are confident, effective and have good judgement and the self-assurance to hold firm on a point of policy regardless of the seniority of people on the other side of a discussion.
• They have a focus on quality and make sure that all jobs are done properly and efficiently.
• Location: This role is open to candidates based in EMEA time zones – Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Responsibilities
The role entails:

• Support operations for one or more departments in the company
• Coordinate monthly reports and schedule meetings and interviews
• Organise and run international company events including logistics
• Manage quarterly and annual executive meetings
• Collaborate across teams on activities and initiatives
• Manage stakeholders across all levels of the organisation

Requirements
What we are looking for in you:

• Excellent academic results at school and university
• A Degree in a Business or Technical subject
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Previous experience providing comprehensive support to senior leadership
• Ability to quickly build rapport with key stakeholders
• Excellent organisational and problem solving skills
• Ability to travel up to four times a year for company events of up to two weeks duration
• Ability to learn new technology and software quickly
• Diligence, confidence, self-awareness and thoughtfulness

Nice to have skills:

• Experience in operations and executive support
• Project management experience
• Event management experience
• Travel industry experience.

What We Offer Colleagues

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Performance Marketing Manager

Location: Remote

Job Summary

• The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. You will prefer to work in an environment that has emphasis on ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation. You will also love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.
• The Marketing team at Canonical drives commercial outcomes for the company across its portfolio of products and grows the addressable market through digital marketing campaigns, lifecycle management, events, partnerships and community development. If these things are important to you and you’re motivated by driving growth, delighting customers and filling the sales funnel, we want to talk with you.
• This role sits in the Marketing team reporting to the Growth Engineering Manager.

What your day will look like

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

What we are looking for in you

• Proficiency with all ad platforms (Google, LinkedIn, Facebook…)
• Track record in performance marketing in a B2B environment
• Experience in ad automation would be greatly appreciated
• Ability to work with at least one of the following languages: Python, JS, SQL
• Experience in data analysis
• 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.

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise 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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Enterprise Account Executive – Middle East

Location: Remote

Job Summary

• The successful candidate will carry an annual bookings quota within their assigned territory.
• They should be able to travel regionally for client engagement, industry conferences, and internationally for company events twice a year.
• They will be expected to demonstrate professionalism and effectiveness, to prospect accounts for new business, maintain and develop existing relationships, and work with colleagues and partners on account strategy.
• They must be comfortable selling enterprise software, open source, cloud, virtualization, container technologies and technical software solutions to senior levels of the enterprise.

What your day will look like

• Represent the company, its solutions and software, in your territory
• Build and execute a territory plan to prioritize outreach and prospecting
• Develop new pipeline through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events
• Close contracts to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets
• Be mindful and proactive in achieving tactical and strategic objectives
• Manage customer relationships and interactions through all stages of the sales cycle
• Work with field engineers to propose solutions that solve our customers’ business problems
• Work with customer success to identify growth opportunities
• Maintain accurate pipeline data and forecasts within Salesforce
• Establish productive professional relationships with key influencers and decision makers

What we are looking for in you

• Experience with complex deals in sectors like government, banking, or utilities.
• Strong understanding of forecasting, territory management, and account management, with skills in opportunity development
• Experience with Middle Eastern customers, especially in Saudi, UAE, Egypt, and Qatar
• Strong network with channels, partners, ISVs, and hardware vendors in the Middle East region
• Bachelor’s level degree, preferably in engineering or computer science
• Experience of open source technology and solutions
• Detail oriented with effective follow-up
• Experience in enterprise software or technology sales planning and execution
• Track record of achievement in sales targets and new account wins
• Self-discipline and motivation to be successful in a distributed team
• Professional written and spoken English, as well as any language that may be appropriate for your target market
• Ability to travel for customer engagements, industry events and company events

Additional skills of interest:

• Arabic language is a plus
• Specific vertical experience, in particular finance, telco, health, energy, public sector, tech
• Experience speaking at conferences or industry events.

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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.
• 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 – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• 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 from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

Location: Remote

Job Summary

• We are hiring 2024 and 2025 Graduate Software Engineers into engineering teams around the world. As a global platform company we offer a wide range of software engineering challenges, in both open source products and commercial business systems. We have teams that work in a variety of languages, typically Python, Golang, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and of course… Bash. We work from the very lowest levels of the Linux system – BIOS and boot loaders, firmware, kernel and drivers, all the way up to desktop applications and containers. We work on tiny devices like the Raspberry Pi and new RISC-V boards, all the way up to supercomputers, clouds and Kubernetes clusters. We work on compilers and toolchains, and we work on security, cryptography, performance and documentation. Some of our teams focus on packaging thousands of pieces of software, others focus on deep contributions to a single body of code.
• If you are excited about the potential that open source has for humanity and the enterprise, you have outstanding results in your academic career, and you are excited to contribute to the open source stack, this is the best way to apply to Canonical. We will work with you to identify teams and projects that would be interesting and a good fit for your skills and motivations. The process is highly competitive, it will require effort and excellence to succeed if you apply here.
• Most of our engineering teams work from home. We try to align a single team in a single time zone – EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), APAC (Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean), and AMER (North, South and Central Americas). Even though you work from home, we try to ensure you always have colleagues alongside to coach and mentor you, and for the companionship of shared problem solving and pair programming. Larger projects have multiple teams and might span the globe. We work with the open source community and specialize in building teams that work well in the ‘fishbowl’ of open source engineering. This is full time work, five days a week, often solving hard problems with significant responsibility. We don’t generally work weekends and nights and we do enjoy good holidays but we also expect productive and intense engagement Monday to Friday.
• We bring all our engineering teams together in person twice a year for a deep ‘sprint’ with other teams to stimulate discussion and enable a wide range of career development paths. This is a fantastic way to demonstrate and develop your skill in software, learn about a wide range of technologies, make a meaningful impact to open source, and see some very interesting new cities that you might never otherwise get to visit.
• If you find the open source stack amazing, and you have been a consistent high-performing student in your school and university, then this will be a challenging and exciting start to your career.

The role entails

• 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.

What we are looking for in you

• 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.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Upstream open source contributions
• Packaging and Linux distribution contributions – Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix or another
• Leadership and organization skills
• Presentation and writing skills
• Business and commercial interests.

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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.
• 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 – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• 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 from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online