Canonical Ongoing Employment Opportunities

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 on a global basis 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Revenue Accountant

Location: Nigeria

Description

• If you are passionate about the technology industry and want to work for a company that aligns with your interests, we might be the place for you! Canonical, and our world class Ubuntu product, attracts some of the leading talent from around the world. Come and work with exceptional people and advance your career in Finance!
• Our Finance team is growing and it’s a really exciting time to join the team. We are looking for bright, motivated people who have a passion for making a difference. You will be seeking an opportunity to drive process improvements and change, input your ideas and truly contribute to a highly productive team.
• 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 15 or ASC 606.
• Location: This role may be office based in London, or Remote in EMEA or Americas Time Zones.

Responsibilities
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 revenue recognition process 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

Requirements
What we are looking for in you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent
• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CPA, etc.)
• IFRS 15/ASC 606 revenue recognition experience
• Experience at a large public accounting firm, or public multinational corporate accounting department preferred
• NetSuite or similar systems experience a plus
• Willingness to travel up to four times per year
• Exceptional academic track record and subsequent career performance

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: Security Operations Team Manager

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• This global leadership role in cyber security is to manage the Security Operations (SecOps) team responsible for design, implementation and evolution of Canonical security practices, techniques, tools, systems and policies.
• The team is the primary owner of strategy and practices that determine how Canonical secures its data, internal infrastructure and build processes.
• They are responsible for assuring the security and integrity of our own infrastructure and product deployments. They design and implement technical security controls that ensure security threats are automatically identified, contained and remediated.
• The team will also contribute ideas and requirements for Canonical product security, improving the resilience and robustness of all Ubuntu customers and users subject to cyber attack.
• As a leader on cyber security in the company, the SecOps team manager will collaborate with our Organisational Learning and Development team to develop playbooks and facilitate SecOps training across Canonical.
• They will operate in a wider security organisation, run a high performing security team and improve Canonical’s security posture.
• They will lead initiatives to integrate the team’s insights into Canonical’s broader software development process.
• While this is a management position, we expect managers to be expert practitioners, able to lead by example, contribute at the highest level, and assess work based on their own professional experience and skill.
• Candidates should have deep, hands-on expertise with a range of open source and proprietary security tooling and practices, which they can integrate into a holistic next generation security solution across the breadth of Canonical’s interests.
• The SecOps team’s mission is not only to secure Canonical, but also to contribute to the security of the wider open source ecosystem.
• They might share knowledge through public presentations and industry events, and share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies.
• This role reports to the CISO.

Responsibilities
What you will do in this role:

• Hire and mentor a team of outstanding technical security professionals
• Define Canonical’s SecOps security standards and playbooks
• 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

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security
• Leadership and management ability
• Excellent business English writing and presentation skills
• Confidence to report security performance metrics with accountability for accuracy and completeness
• Expertise in threat modelling and risk management frameworks
• Ability to define, implement, automate and measure effective incident response playbooks
• 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
• Experience with security standards such as ISO 27001

Optional things we value:

• Experience in a security operations team or a security operations centre (SOC)
• Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability
• Experience with state-actor and other advanced persistent threats

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: Global Payroll Administrator

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• We’re looking for an exceptional payroll administrator with experience of working with outsourced payroll bureaus (US, UK, EU and/or additional jurisdictions) to manage the company’s end to end global payroll and contractor payments.
• You’ll have domain expertise in processing payroll in different countries. You are reliable, diligent and pay attention to details and always work towards improving current processes.
• This role may choose to be office based out of London or home based, and will report to our Global Financial Controller.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all payrolls are always delivered on time and with 100% accuracy
• Process the payroll/contractor data in an organised and structured manner
• Manage all payroll deadlines and monthly payroll tasks
• Prepare payroll reports and provide monthly payroll data in journal format to finance for processing
• Comply with GDPR regulations and maintain payroll security/confidentiality
• Deal with payroll queries and resolve or escalate as required
• Constantly seek out ways to improve systems and processes to ensure a seamless flow between HR, Payroll and Finance
• Keep payroll policies up to date and write any new procedures as required
• Provide support to any project related activities from Finance and HR
• Provide support to Finance with reporting and audit queries
• Assist with future expansions of global payrolls and other projects
• Manage all payroll correspondence and act as a point of contact for all escalated payroll queries
• Maintain strong cross-functional team relationships
• Build strong relationships with vendors to ensure excellent service delivery and compliance in all countries

Requirements
Valued skills and experience:

• Experience in a similar payroll role or working with outsourced payroll bureaus
• Excellent communication skills to converse with external parties and internal team members of all levels
• Strong process and planning mindset
• Ability to think outside the box and solve problems when faced with new challenges
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Exceptional planning/organisational skills and being deadline oriented
• Ability to work with different software systems, and have excellent knowledge of spreadsheets and formulas
• Being a team player as well as being able to work independently

What we offer you

• Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills.
• In addition to the benefits above, 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.
• Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
• 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: Lead Development Lifecycle Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Description

• Lead our effort to get Ubuntu fit for mission critical environments like automotive, aerospace, industrial robotics and other highly regulated uses.
• Ubuntu is the most widely used Linux in the enterprise, for developers, and at home. We work to enable innovation in all of those sectors, as a gateway to the huge world of open source. People love the ease of use and low cost that we have brought to enterprise Linux. Now, we want to invest in additional processes and engineering, tools and analysis, to enable people to build mission-critical systems that meet regulatory requirements, with Ubuntu.
• Canonical has created a role for a Development Lifecycle Engineer with a passion for engineering excellence and open source, and experience implementing an agile lifecycle release train across multiple sets of products.
• We aim to demonstrate how open source can be at the forefront of innovation while fulfilling the demands of regulated space engineering environments. The purpose of this role is to bridge Canonical’s open source engineering processes with regulated technology platform requirements both in terms of compliance and certification.
• This is not a paper exercise: we aim to enhance the delivery quality, security and developer experience. In this role, you will lead, challenge, and influence the culture and work environment.
• Your role will work with all engineering stakeholders to demonstrate Canonical’s ‘ways of working’.
• Together with engineering leadership, you will define and implement continuous improvement processes and establish qualification requirements to support engineering quality standards .
• Throughout this effort, you will work closely with our teams in challenge them positively, supporting and developing controls alongside existing development lifecycle processes.
• You will also establish strategic relations with external working groups, committees and partners.
• You will report directly to our Vice President of Engineering Excellence and work closely with company-wide engineering leadership to define and execute this vision.
• Location: This role may be held anywhere in European, Middle Eastern, African or Americas regions or time zones.

Responsibilities
What your day will look like:

• Implement the vision and strategy for Engineering Excellence
• Represent Ubuntu and Canonical in front of customers, partners and consortia to support our demonstration of excellence
• Coordinate, guide and positively influence Canonical engineering  ways of working
• Develop skills through coaching, feedback and hands-on technical leadership
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Work from home with international travel twice a year, up to two weeks at a time, for company events

Requirements
What we are looking for in you:

• You have a strong experience in engineering and process management in an agile environment
• You love developing and growing people and teams and have a track record of doing it
• You have led successful compliance and certification efforts, understand well the process and stakeholders management required
• You have knowledge or certification addressing industry standards such as ISO IEC 9001, 25010 and 15504 / SPICE
• You worked on successful open source projects known for their demonstrated engineering processes

Additional skills that you might also bring:

• Background as a software developer
• Experience in establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills

What we offer you

• Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, 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.
• Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
• 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: Engineering Manager – Web

Location: Nigeria

The Role

• The Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams.
• As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as web engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.
• As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in web development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.
• You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

Responsibilities
What you will do:

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team’s goals
• Estimate work, set goals, and meet them
• Write briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks
• Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events
• Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
• Help mentor other engineers and manage staff.
• Work to reduce complexity
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• 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

Requirements

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You try to learn and use web best practices in your work
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You take web best practices into account with your work
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You drive work to completion
• You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You follow industry trends and new technologies
• You’re capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert
• You have the ability to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges
• You’re seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical
• You’re capable of representing your team in the absence of management
• You understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do
• You love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organisational management
• You value getting things done by turning product vision into executable strategy

We Offer

• Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year in interesting places all around the world to come together to collaborate. These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!
• Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.
• Compensation: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.
• Recognition: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.
• Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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