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Lead Development Lifecycle Engineer
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
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
Marketing Data Analyst
What your day will look like
- Utilise advanced data analytics to grow Canonical’s product adoption and market penetration
- Focus on quantitative and qualitative data analytics to find insights and meaningful business outcomes
- Design and conduct experiments with data, visualisation and insights into Canonical’s target audiences
- Collaborate with stakeholder teams (Product Management, Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, RevOps, etc) to improve the data and tool ecosystem
- Put in place and maintain systems to ensure teams across the company have self-service access to data dashboards
What we are looking for in you?
- Background in data science, mathematics, actuarial science, or engineering
- Knowledge in advanced statistics, data sciences, coding/scripting languages (Python, JS, etc), and databases (SQL, etc)
- Strength in data analytics and visualisation (Looker Studio, Tableau, Apache Superset, etc)
- Ability to translate business questions to key research objectives
- Ability to identify the best methodology to execute research, synthesise and analyse findings
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Willingness to examine the status quo and resilient in the face of challenges
C++ Graphics and Windowing System Software Engineer – Mir
What you will do
- Design and implement features across the Mir stack
- Assist in debugging, tracking down and fixing issues
- Improve tests and performance benchmarks to catch issues early
- Create documentation to enhance the developer experience
- Engage with the open source community and commercial partners
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
Required skills and experience
- You have excellent, modern C++ programming taste
- You have a rigorous approach to software design, development and testing
- You have a solid understanding of asynchronous programming and concurrency patterns
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills to document and present software developed
- You are productive collaborating remotely and are highly motivated and organized
- You are familiar with Linux as a development and deployment platform
- You have proven ability to consistently deliver robust code to production
- Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
Desirable skills and experience
- Experience with the Wayland protocol ecosystem and compositors
- Familiarity with a range of Linux Desktop Environments
- Familiarity with OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics and animation frameworks
- You have experience developing and deploying on a Ubuntu/Debian system
Embedded & Desktop Linux Systems Engineer – Optimisation
What your day will look like
- Design and implement the best Ubuntu integration for the latest IoT and server-class hardware platforms and software stacks
- Work with partners to deliver a delightful, optimised, first class Ubuntu experience on their platforms
- Take a holistic approach to the Ubuntu experience on partner platforms with inputs on technical plans, testing strategy, quality metrics
- Participate as technical lead on complex customer engagements involving complete system architectures from cloud to edge
- Help our customers integrate their apps, SDKs, build device OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server
- Work with the most advanced operating systems and application technologies available in the enterprise world.
Joining Canonical, you will partner with bright minds from all over the world, and work with an exciting set of new technologies in a fast growing company with a truly unique and ambitious vision to build a better platform with free software.
You will work with customers on exciting IoT and server platforms and technologies, built to support different verticals: from robots to data centers, from telco to retail.
What we are looking for in you
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar
- You have experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
- You have experience working with open source communities and licences
- You have experience working with C, C++
- You can work in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation.
Additional skills that you might also bring
- Experience with graphics stacks
- Good understanding of networking – TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST
- Basic understanding of security best practices in IoT or server environments
- Good communication skills, ideally public speaking experience
- IoT / Embedded experience – from board and SoC, BMCs, bootloaders and firmware to OS, through apps and services
- Some experience with Docker/OCI containers/K8s
Linux Software Engineering Manager – Ubuntu Platform Optimisation
What you’ll do
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
- Represent your team to partners, product stakeholders and customers
- Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed organisation
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Collaborate with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
- Design and integrate new features and platform optimisations
What we’re looking for in you
- Experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
- Experience working with Python, C, C++
- Experience managing software engineers with a track record of planning, delivery and quality
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to ensure your team delivers to schedule
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Experience working with customers, going beyond resolving their technical issues, to interpreting their business challenges and effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
- High-quality, well-designed and well-documented software experience
- Builds trust, relationships and confidence
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Additional skills we value
- Experience working with open source communities and licenses
- Experience with server technologies, including UEFI firmware, GPU computing, RDMA/Infiniband and virtualization stacks (kvm, qemu, libvirt)
- Experience with IoT / Embedded devices from firmware, boot loaders and BSP enablement including hardware accelerators
- Experience with graphics stacks
- Experience with open source networking technologies (eBPF, OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DPDK, SPDK, etc)
- Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
- Understanding of security best practices and Secure Software Development Lifecycles
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD automation platforms such as GitHub Actions
- Experience with performance benchmarking and profiling
Linux Platform Integration – Ubuntu Systems Senior Engineer
What your day will look like
- Design and implement the best Ubuntu integration for the latest IoT desktop and server-class hardware platforms and software stacks
- Work with partners to deliver an optimised, first class Ubuntu experience on their platforms
- Take a holistic approach to the Ubuntu experience on partner platforms with inputs on technical plans, testing strategy, quality metrics
- Participate as technical lead on customer engagements involving complete system architectures from cloud to edge
- Help our partners integrate their apps, SDKs, build device OS images, and optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server
- Work with the most advanced operating systems and application technologies available in the enterprise world.
Joining Canonical, you will partner with bright minds from all over the world, and work with an exciting set of new technologies in a fast growing company with a truly unique and ambitious vision to build a better platform with free software.
You will work with customers on exciting IoT, desktop and server platforms and technologies, built to support different verticals: from robots to data centers, from telco to retail, as well as automotive.
What we are looking for in you
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar
- You have experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
- You have experience working with open source communities and licences
- You have experience working with Python, C, C++
- You can work in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation.
Nice to have
- Experience with server technologies, including UEFI firmware, GPU computing, RDMA/Infiniband and virtualization stacks
- Experience with graphics stacks
- Good understanding of networking – TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST
- Basic understanding of security best practices in IoT or server environments
- Good communication skills, ideally public speaking experience
- IoT / Embedded experience – from board and SoC, BMCs, bootloaders and firmware to OS, through apps and services
- Experience working with CI automation platforms such as GitHub
- Experience with performance benchmarking and profiling
- Some experience with Docker/OCI containers/K8s
Ubuntu Engineering Delivery and Excellence Manager
What you’ll do
- Define and monitor quality metrics for the most popular Linux distro in the world
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Setup and maintain continuous integration for all supported deliverables
- Develop a team with a culture of high quality and performance
- Work from home with international travel twice per year for up to two weeks
Who you are
- You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
- Your technical knowledge includes C/C++, Python programming, and Shell scripting
- You have experience with quality processes and continuous integration tools and principles
- You have engineering management experience and enjoy growing people
- You are a strong proponent of data-driven decision making
Valued additional experience
- A good understanding of Debian packaging and snaps will be valuable
- Familiarity with an agile development environment
Senior Marketing Manager – Security & Compliance
What your day will look like
- Be responsible for go-to-market planning and execution for Canonical’s range of security and compliance products
- Lead on content dissemination planning, campaign development and planning for planning product launches.
- You will lead on the development of compelling messaging and positioning that emphasizes business value and connects with target audiences throughout the buying journey
- Conceiving and executing customer base communications and marketing programs to upsell and cross sell into our large base of customers
- Collaborating with demand generation teams, utilizing data and insights to create and improve strategies that drive traffic to our content, optimizing marketing funnels
- Work with other teams to plan event, webinars and support paid and social media promotion
- Create and publish content (online and print) in line with marketing plans to deliver on campaigns
- Monitoring the competitive landscape to define product positioning that differentiates
What we are looking for in you
- Experience in a marketing function for enterprise IT products
- Passion for the cybersecurity industry and cybersecurity marketing
- Strong inter-personal management skills.
- Proven analytical skills, able to assess opportunities and make decisions on ROI/advantages of programs & investments.
- Appetite to deliver strong results and innovation.
- Growth mindset – someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risk.
- Willingness to roll up their sleeves.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work and thrive in a self-starter, fast-paced and changing environment
- Love for diverse work assignments and the opportunity to try new approaches
UX Designer – Developer Experience
What will your day look like
- We create world-renowned software, impacting the lives of millions of engineers, enterprises, entrepreneurs and consumers every day.
- Our design team works in a multi-disciplinary environment with visual designers, UX designers, front-end and back-end engineers to bring exciting projects to life.
- We help and learn from each other and constantly strive to improve our work and processes.
- As a UX Designer for Infrastructure and Developer Experience, you will work with the exceptional engineering teams at Canonical and have a vital role in improving what we deliver to the success of Ubuntu, our partners, customers and the larger Ubuntu community. We build tools that enable everyone to build their own cloud experiences (MAAS, LXD, MicroCloud and Canonical k8s), and we put together the Developer Experience on your Ubuntu Desktop.
- Your job is to make sure we implement industry best practices, and push the limits of what is possible.
- Clear, stylish presentation that aids the user experience of our products is how we raise the bar and reach the widest audience.
- Real content and information will be at the core of the designs you produce. You know the ins and outs of typography, colour and layout, and you care deeply about usability, accessibility and web standards.
- You should have agency, company or freelance design experience.
What we are looking for in you
- Excellent academic results at school and university
- Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM
- Knowledge and passion for user experience, technology and design
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement – curious, flexible, scientific
- Drive to finish work and celebrate success
- Confidence in user research practices
- Engagement with the latest design research and innovation
- 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.
Application Closing Date : 26 July. 2024
Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.
- Lead Development Lifecycle Engineer
- Marketing Data Analyst
- C++ Graphics and Windowing System Software Engineer - Mir
- Embedded & Desktop Linux Systems Engineer - Optimisation
- Linux Software Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Platform Optimisation
- Linux Platform Integration - Ubuntu Systems Senior Engineer
- Ubuntu Engineering Delivery and Excellence Manager
- Senior Marketing Manager - Security & Compliance
- UX Designer - Developer Experience