Linux Software Engineer - Ubuntu for Next-Gen Silicon (multiple roles and seniority levels)

• Collaborating proactively within a distributed team

• Fostering a software ecosystem with a seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users

• Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards

• Shaping the future of Ubuntu through new ideas and advisory work across areas of interest

• Engaging with the Ubuntu and Debian communities, upstream projects, and commercially supported customers

• Debugging issues in open-source code and team-maintained code

• Assisting customers to integrate their apps, SDKs, build OS images, and optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop, and Server

• Working with teams to maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across platforms and technologies such as:

• Servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs, and automotive systems

• AI stacks

• Graphics, audio, and multimedia stacks

• Virtualisation and containers

• Hardware enablement stacks

• New architectures, architecture variants, and optimized toolchains

• Package management and dependencies

• Platform security (secure boot, FDE, Ubuntu Core, Confidential Computing), * Hardware enablement for platforms and devices, including SmartNICs, NVMe storage, GPUs, audio components, and sensors

• Performance optimisation

• Toolchain development and maintenance

• Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST)

• Security best practices

• IoT and embedded systems, including board-level hardware, SoCs, BMCs, bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, applications, and services

What We Offer Colleagues

• 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

• Exceptional academic track record from high school through university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling alternative narrative
• A passion for technology and for collaborating with brilliant people
• Curiosity, flexibility, articulation, and accountability
• A strong focus on soft skills and a self-motivated, enterprising mindset
• Ability to build partnerships with diverse internal and external groups
• Strong fundamentals in C, C++ and Python
• Experience or interest in learning Linux distribution packaging
• Experience or interest in open-source maintenance or contribution, and an understanding of licences
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience with one or more of the following:

• Graphics, audio, or multimedia stacks

Linux Software Engineer - Ubuntu for Next-Gen Silicon (multiple roles and seniority levels) Join Canonical as a Linux Software Engineer to work on the Ubuntu platform, helping to optimize new silicon technologies such as hardware accelerators, AI stacks, and networking solutions. Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems. Our Ubuntu platform is used across public cloud, data science, AI, engineering, and the Internet of Things. The company is founder-led, profitable, and rapidly growing, with a global, distributed team that collaborates two to four times a year in person., Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Publishing Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects, we serve AI, IoT, and cloud platforms worldwide. Since 2004, we have operated as a remote-first company, fostering a workplace free from discrimination and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.