Canonical

Role Description As an experienced marketer at Canonical, you’ll lead cross-disciplinary teams of product, partner, or sales professionals in your specific area, from establishing priorities and strategies with senior stakeholders to delivering on integrated campaigns. You will take ownership of one of our core marketing tracks and lead both strategy and execution. You’ll ensure campaigns land, launches succeed, and adoption grows, while contributing to the broader go-to-market engine. - Lead GTM strategy and campaign execution in your functional area - Align with product, sales, content, and partner teams to deliver integrated plans - Shape messaging, positioning, and assets that resonate with customers - Design and run experiments to test your hypothesis - Drive major launches, marketing initiatives, and growth programs - Run reviews and retrospectives to improve performance and impact - Mentor colleagues, strengthen the function, and set high standards for delivery Qualifications - Strong written and verbal communication in English - Exceptional academic track record from high school and university - Proven experience in B2B marketing, ideally in software, SaaS, or open source - Strong track record shaping go-to-market strategy, messaging, and campaigns that move the pipeline - Fast adaptation to change and new technology adoption in marketing - A leader, growing and elevating others across the organization - A solid eye for ROI and effective budget management - Ability to influence and align stakeholders across the organization - Excellent communication and storytelling skills for technical solutions - Skilled at managing complex projects and leading cross-functional teams - Comfortable using data to evaluate campaigns and refine strategy - Proactive, outcome-driven, and confident, operating independently at a global scale Requirements - Background in sales-led or ecosystem growth (nice-to-have) - Familiarity with ABM (Account-Based Marketing) approaches (nice-to-have) - Experience leading go-to-market efforts across a large product portfolio (nice-to-have) - Experience managing budgets, agencies, or external vendors (nice-to-have) - Understanding of open source communities and business models (nice-to-have) - Experience mentoring or leading junior marketers (nice-to-have) Benefits - Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! - Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD 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’

Role Description We are expanding our in-house legal team, creating an opportunity for an exceptional lawyer as Legal Advisor or Legal Counsel. The successful candidate will be a rigorous and effective practitioner with a track record of academic achievement and social engagement. At Canonical, they will have the opportunity to work on a variety of compliance and privacy matters in the technology and enterprise software realm, as well as cutting-edge questions of technology, law, and product development. In this appointment, we are looking for someone with experience in compliance, privacy, and product development, paired with an ability to learn and tackle new challenges and complex questions. The successful candidate will work closely with Canonical and external legal counsel in Europe and the Americas, and colleagues worldwide. What your day will look like: - Draft and review corporate policies, spearhead process change, and deploy controls to meet compliance regulatory requirements globally. - Help develop, maintain, and scale global privacy programs, including conducting PIAs, ROPAs, and supporting operational initiatives. - Work cross-functionally with teams to evaluate the impact of privacy and data protection laws and regulations, including AI regulations. - Provide legal support to various internal clients across the company, including Canonical’s product teams. - Interface with cross-functional teams to support company initiatives, including AI deployment and use. - Work with local counsel in many countries to seek and implement advice. Qualifications - An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university. - A degree in law, JD or equivalent, and active licence to practise law or current progress towards that. - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations. - Strong organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-cultural environment. - Effective both independently and as part of a team. - A passion for technology evidenced by personal initiatives and projects. - Professional written and spoken English with excellent drafting and presentation skills. - Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation. - Appreciative of diversity; polite and effective in a multicultural multinational organisation. - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability. - Thoughtfulness and self-motivation. - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments. - Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long. Requirements - Experience in compliance, data privacy, or product development. - Leadership and the ability to influence others to embrace new ideas or practices. - Understanding of the open source software community and values. - Understanding of the technology industry - silicon, data centers, PCs, connected devices, and software. - Experience working on in-house legal team and/or law firm. Benefits - We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. - Performance-driven annual bonus or commission. - 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. Company Description 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 of software. 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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Role Description Canonical is hiring exceptional Revenue Operations analysts who will support a team of experts growing and managing our global direct, alliance, channel partner and online sales. The Revenue Operations teams drive continuous policy, process and data quality improvement which enable us to analyze and drive interventions to maximize net customer retention, and lead robust, repeatable processes to plan, manage and deliver revenue. You will support the leadership of the team, providing insights to drive improvements and partnering with Canonical’s teams across: - Sales - Business Development - Customer Success - Marketing - Product Management - Commercial Systems - Delivery - Finance - Legal This position requires an analytical approach, a keen eye for detail and the desire to strive for excellence. People that thrive in these roles are proactive problem solvers who are passionate about collaborating with sales and business development teams, our role in the technology industry bringing open source to a wider audience of innovators and enterprises, and contributing to initiatives in support of Canonical's continued success. Successful candidates will demonstrate initiative in improving the way the team works, maintaining compliance and associated governance. Location: These roles will be based remotely in the EMEA and Americas regions. The role entails: - Supporting all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the sales and business development functions globally. - Driving data quality, through checking opportunities for accuracy, clean order processing, new hire training, policy and process documentation, reporting and data cleansing. - Supporting and enabling the sales team globally on CRM and other revenue operations policies, processes and systems such as Sales Engagement, Training/Enablement, Data Enrichment, Configure Price Quote, Analytics and Commissions. - Supporting other Revenue Operations Analysts and leadership team to report on and improve data quality, sales metrics, dashboards and other ad-hoc analytical tasks. - Supporting planning, monitoring and improving revenue operations, across new leads, pipeline, velocity, sales productivity and renewals. Delivering insight that enables improved territory and quota management, channel development and sales productivity. - Assisting the team with automation and streamlining of the end-to-end Lead to Order process. Qualifications - Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university. - Undergraduate degree in a related field, preferably in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path. - Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations. - Experience working as an analyst in revenue/sales operations or related fields such as financial analysis, sales analysis or sales order processing. - Energetic, thoughtful, systematic approach, focused on robust, repeatable and scalable outcomes. - Excellent attention to detail and data-driven, analytical and problem-solving skills. - Planning and organisational skills, including the ability to interact and work with stakeholders across functions and at all levels of the organisation. - Strong communication, interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills, including comfort working with teams under commercial pressure. - Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills. - Ability to travel internationally up to four times a year for company events. Nice-to-have skills - Experience gained within a similar, technology subscription-based business. - Understanding of working in a global, multicultural organization including within a team based remotely in multiple time zones. Benefits - We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. - Annual compensation review. - Performance-driven annual bonus or commission. - Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year. - 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. Company Description 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 of software. 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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Role Description Canonical is globally expanding its Embedded Devices Software Solution Sales team, hiring managers, directors, and account managers to broaden reach in mission-critical industries. The successful candidates will focus on our Ubuntu product portfolio, which is already widely used in connected devices and industrial PCs. Our newer offering, Ubuntu Core for IoT, provides state-of-the-art security and resilience for high-end appliances and equipment, serving global brands in consumer, industrial electronics, automotive, and robotics. This is a high-energy role focused on prospecting sales and strategic account development, demanding ambition and focus. You will be responsible for carrying an annual bookings quota and must be comfortable positioning and selling a range of open source, services, and software solutions. - Building and executing a territory sales plan to prioritize leading security-focused brands and manufacturers - Working with marketing to promote our brand and increase market awareness in prioritized accounts - Developing pipeline through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events - Closing contracts to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets and achieve strategic objectives - Managing customer relationships and interactions through all stages of the sales cycle - Working with Field Engineers to understand customer requirements and ensure customer satisfaction - Maintaining accurate data and forecasts within Salesforce - Establishing productive professional relationships with key influencers and decision-makers - Coordinating with colleagues, including support, delivery, and management Qualifications - Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university - Undergraduate degree in a technical subject - Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation - Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results - Field sales experience in embedded Linux, embedded software, or enterprise software - Track record of achievement of sales targets and large account wins - Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills - Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments - Detail oriented with effective follow-up Requirements - Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long - Willingness to travel up to 50% for customer meetings and industry events Benefits - We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. - Performance-driven annual bonus or commission. - Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year. - Annual compensation review. - Recognition rewards. - Annual holiday leave. - Maternity and paternity leave. - Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform. - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues. - Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

Role Description Canonical is globally expanding its Embedded Devices Software Solution Sales team, hiring managers, directors, and account managers to broaden reach in mission-critical industries. The successful candidates will focus on our Ubuntu product portfolio, which is already widely used in connected devices and industrial PCs. Our newer offering, Ubuntu Core for IoT, provides state-of-the-art security and resilience for high-end appliances and equipment, serving global brands in consumer, industrial electronics, automotive, and robotics. This is a high-energy role focused on prospecting sales and strategic account development, demanding ambition and focus. You will be responsible for carrying an annual bookings quota and must be comfortable positioning and selling a range of open source, services, and software solutions. The role entails: - Building and executing a territory sales plan to prioritize leading security-focused brands and manufacturers - Working with marketing to promote our brand and increase market awareness in prioritized accounts - Developing pipeline through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events - Closing contracts to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets and achieve strategic objectives - Managing customer relationships and interactions through all stages of the sales cycle - Working with Field Engineers to understand customer requirements and ensure customer satisfaction - Maintaining accurate data and forecasts within Salesforce - Establishing productive professional relationships with key influencers and decision-makers - Coordinating with colleagues, including support, delivery, and management Qualifications - Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university - Undergraduate degree in a technical subject - Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation - Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results - Field sales experience in embedded Linux, embedded software, or enterprise software - Track record of achievement of sales targets and large account wins - Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills - Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) - Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability - Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments - Detail oriented with effective follow-up Requirements - Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long - Willingness to travel up to 50% for customer meetings and industry events Benefits - We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. - Performance-driven annual bonus or commission. - Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year. - Annual compensation review. - Recognition rewards. - Annual holiday leave. - Maternity and paternity leave. - Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform. - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues. - Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

• Building and executing a territory sales plan to prioritize leading security-focused brands and manufacturers • Working with marketing to promote our brand and increase market awareness in prioritized accounts • Developing pipeline through outreach, prospecting, local marketing, and industry events • Closing contracts to meet and exceed quarterly and annual bookings targets and achieve strategic objectives • Managing customer relationships and interactions through all stages of the sales cycle • Working with Field Engineers to understand customer requirements and ensure customer satisfaction • Maintaining accurate data and forecasts within Salesforce • Establishing productive professional relationships with key influencers and decision-makers • Coordinating with colleagues, including support, delivery, and management

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1300+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Regional HR Manager at Canonical to support our AMER region. With colleagues across 75+​ ​countries, we require a People function that thinks and acts globally.​ We're looking for a regional lead that will report into our Global Head of HR who can help build our company as we go through continued growth plans. It's an exciting time to join with the opportunity to help shape and create an HR function for the future. You will lead the Americas team of HR professionals to provide precise, compliant and scalable HR operations to the business, advise and execute on HR issues across the whole employee life-cycle, and partner with senior leadership in your region. You will have an analytical approach, a keen eye for detail and the ability to interpret data trends and themes. The role entails the individual to: - Lead and scale Canonical’s regional HR team - Deliver precise and compliant HR operations in a timely manner and with the highest degree of accuracy - Interact closely with the broader People team to create tight-knit processes across all regions - Be accountable for HR processes such as talent development, succession planning, performance assessments, onboarding, culture and engagement initiatives that drive high performing teams - Work with senior managers across the business on performance management, organizational design, employee engagement, rewards- and workforce planning - Own as well as coach and advise people managers on the full spectrum of employee relations issues, across multiple countries - Partner with people managers to support the delivery of appropriate training and development programs - Establish a trusted partnership with the business in your region - Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives - Design new policies and deliver on business-critical HR related projects globally - Present at Canonical events to articulate Canonical’s HR practices What we are looking for in you - Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university - HR experience leading initiatives across regions within a technology business - People management experience - Experience in business partnering with senior stakeholders - A good balance between leading and executing, in this role you will need to be hands-on involved in the daily HR routines too - Experience in working in a remote first organization - Able to leverage data to make informed decisions - Knowledge and practical implementation of HR practices and employment law across the Americas region - Experience in handling and overseeing complex ER matters across multiple jurisdictions - Fluent in business English (written and spoken) - Self motivated, organized, accurate, confident, authentic, results-orientated, open-minded, enthusiastic and energetic - Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events Nice-to-have skills - Experience with immigration policies and mobility processes - Professional HR qualification (SHRM or other) - Facilitation skills 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 About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. 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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #LI-remote

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring 2025 and 2026 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. Location: This is a Globally remote role. 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 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 recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. - Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year - Annual compensation review - Recognition rewards - Annual holiday leave - Maternity and paternity leave - Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues - Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. 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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #LI-remote

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring multiple positions from early-career engineers to experienced architects focused on the different dimensions of dependable software: cybersecurity, quality, and safety. What does it take to bring the world’s open source software into mission-critical systems? At Canonical, we are driving the engineering discipline needed to build secure, reliable, and high-quality products that our automotive and industrial partners can depend on. Ubuntu is already the world’s most widely used Linux distribution in general; we want to make it the world’s best choice for the automotive and industrial sectors too. We operate at the boundary between upstream open source innovation and the industrial regulatory realities. Our engineers define the concepts, architectures, processes, verification strategies, and certification artifacts to transform a general-purpose platform into a dependable, certifiable foundation for automotive and industrial compute. This is systems-level engineering at scale, requiring precision, rigor, and a deep understanding of how complex software behaves in constrained, regulated environments. We are looking for engineers and architects who combine an open source hacker and builder mindset with respect for rigorous, standards-driven engineering. You will work across Canonical engineering teams and with leading industrial partners, helping to build this capability from the ground up and shaping how open source enters the most demanding technical domains. Location: This is a remote role based in the EMEA region. The role entails - Translate automotive and industrial cybersecurity, quality and safety standards into actionable engineering requirements and perform gap analyses against current capabilities. - Drive the creation of structured engineering artifacts, including requirements, traceability models, risk analysis, test strategies, and certification documentation. - Collaborate with Canonical engineering teams to align development practices with industrial compliance needs. - Design, implement, and execute verification and validation activities required to qualify Ubuntu and other components for regulated environments. - Develop and improve automation and tooling to scale traceability, testing, compliance evidence generation, and reporting. - Engage with industrial partners to understand their expectations, align external expectations and internal capabilities, and support audits and technical reviews. - Contribute to the continuous improvement of Canonical’s internal processes and standards capability as the team scales. What we are looking for in you - Strong software engineering foundation with experience in developing complex systems on Linux. - Professional experience with C, C++, and Python in production environments. - Demonstrated experience working within automotive, industrial, or other regulated environments governed by safety, cybersecurity, or quality standards (such as ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62443, SOTIF, or (A)SPICE), and applying them in practice. - Experience in system or software architecture, implementation, or verification and validation of complex embedded systems. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce precise technical documentation. - Ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed team and engage with industrial partners. Additional experience that is valuable - Contributions to open source projects, particularly in the area of Software Defined Vehicles. - Knowledge of Debian packaging. - Experience with Rust or safety-critical software development. 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 recognize 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 - Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform - Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues - Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. 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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal-opportunity employer We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

Role Description Use your deep C++ skills on Windows and MacOS to build an amazing open source developer experience with Multipass, the workstation mini-cloud at your fingertips which provides Ubuntu and appliance VMs on demand for build, test and prototyping. The Multipass team is hiring a Software Engineer to join our distributed team. We greatly value quality in our code, and great user experience. Multipass is published for macOS, Windows, and also Linux. Think of it as a workstation mini-cloud. At its simplest you can simply say multipass launch and you will get a new VM on your workstation. You can feed that VM data, just as you would on a public cloud like AWS, Azure or GCP. The goal is not to be a full cloud of course. The goal is to give developers a local cloud on their workstation, which they can use to run builds in the background, or to try cloud appliances, or to test their own cloud deployments and cloud-init scripts, free of charge. People sometimes use it as a build farm on a shared server, for example. As a Software Engineer you are expected to play a leadership role designing, mentoring, reviewing and of course coding. Location: This is a remote position available in the EMEA region only. Qualifications - Cross-platform development experience on macOS and/or Windows - Expertise in modern C++ development - Experience with software testing and test-driven development - Extremely high personal standards for code quality, testing and design - Knowledge of hypervisor technologies such as Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM, and QEMU - Open source experience and involvement - Knowledge of CI systems a plus - Capacity to learn quickly about new systems and techniques - Excellent communication skills in English - both verbal and written - Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree Requirements - Ensure Multipass is easy and intuitive to use - Architect new features and design the user experience - Write high-quality code to create new features and fix bugs - Review code and architecture as part of Canonical’s engineering process - Collaborate proactively with a distributed team - Debug, track down and fix issues encountered by our users - Foster the open source community and support customers when needed - Travel internationally for up to two weeks, twice a year, for company events Benefits - 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 Company Description 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. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.