Lead development of distributed tracing or service mesh products within Canonical's Observability group. Responsibilities include managing a distributed engineering team, running team processes, conducting one-on-ones, reviewing code, collaborating with engineering managers, product managers and architects, and representing Canonical at conferences. Role is home-based in EMEA or the Americas and requires willingness to travel up to four times a year. Required skills include professional software development experience, Linux (Debian/Ubuntu preferred), Kubernetes and observability concepts; Python and Go are listed as nice-to-have.

Lead and develop a distributed team of engineers to deliver Ubuntu integration and performance enhancements across kernel-to-GUI stacks for IoT and server-class hardware. Manage partner relationships and commercial engagements, ensure timely delivery on project milestones, maintain quality standards, and collaborate across internal teams. Role requires Linux/distribution experience, debian packaging knowledge, technical leadership, customer-facing experience, and effective English communication.

Remote manager role (Americas) responsible for leading and developing Field Engineers across presales and professional services, solving customer problems with Canonical's Ubuntu/embedded Linux solutions, and driving disciplined engineering and organisational practices. Requires strong embedded Linux and firmware experience, proficiency in at least one of Golang, Python, C, C++ or Rust, experience managing a small team, and professional English communication.

Manage and grow a SecOps team responsible for designing and operating Canonical's SOC and security practices. Own SOC architecture and tooling, define playbooks and KPIs, detect/contain/remediate threats, contribute to product and open source security, run threat modelling and tabletop exercises, collaborate on SecOps learning and development, and present/report security performance.

Lead a GitOps/devops engineering team (remote, APAC and EMEA), drive daily agile practices, implement and raise standards for infrastructure-as-code and model-driven operations, ensure SLA-aligned delivery of managed services across public/private cloud, bare metal and Kubernetes, mentor engineers and coordinate projects. Requires Linux and operations expertise, experience delivering software via IaC and managing devops teams for SaaS or similar offerings. Role entails up to twice-yearly travel for company events.

Canonical seeks a Web Engineering Manager based remotely in EMEA to support and grow a team of web engineers, contribute technically, and collaborate across product and engineering teams. The role requires strong web development experience (TypeScript, React or Flutter), Linux familiarity, people management and responsibilities for design, testing, deployment and operational excellence; travel twice a year is required.

Lead and develop a team of security engineers responsible for responding to emerging threats, driving vulnerability remediation (CVE lifecycle), and collaborating with upstream open-source projects and customers. Role includes technical guidance, people management, coaching, planning and representing the team to stakeholders in a remote, worldwide setting.

Lead and grow a distributed engineering team to design and implement Ubuntu Core system software for various CPU architectures (ARM, RISC‑V, x86). Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, mentoring, roadmap planning, stakeholder management, direct technical contribution, and promoting agile practices. Required skills: embedded software development, Go, C++, Shell, solid Linux knowledge, and strong people-management experience. Remote role covering Americas and EMEA with periodic in-person team meetings.

Canonical seeks an Engineering Manager (remote, worldwide) to lead and develop a team of Python engineers focused on open-source automation, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps workflows (Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes). Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, hands-on technical leadership, planning delivery, stakeholder coordination and occasional global travel (up to 10%).

Lead and develop a team of engineers to define and implement security standards and system hardening across the Ubuntu platform. Responsibilities include line management, coaching, driving engineering practices, representing the team to stakeholders, and supporting certification and compliance efforts (FIPS 140, CIS, DISA-STIG, FedRAMP, CRA). Requires experience with product security, relevant standards and benchmarks, agile environments, strong English communication, and occasional travel (twice yearly).

Lead and grow a regional engineering team focused on productising internal business workloads for real-time automated operations on Kubernetes. Role requires strong software engineering background with proven Python experience, Docker/Kubernetes operations, technical leadership, and experience in agile practices; up to 20% global travel.

Remote Engineering Manager responsible for leading and developing engineers who build, test and publish Ubuntu base and specialized images for public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Role involves technical leadership (Python/Golang), architecture and code review, CI/CD and automation, partner engagement, agile delivery, and up to 15% travel.

Manage a distributed MLOps/Analytics engineering team, lead processes, review code, provide architectural leadership, mentor reports, and collaborate on engineering roadmaps. Role expects strong Python and MLOps experience (Kubeflow, MLflow, Feast), familiarity with container technologies and public cloud platforms. Globally remote with travel ~2–4 weeks/year.

Manage a distributed engineering team delivering managed services for customer environments (OpenStack, Kubernetes, private cloud). Responsibilities include team health, process and operations improvements, meeting SLAs, stakeholder/customer collaboration, and driving quality and velocity of development and operations. Requires a technical background in Linux/cloud technologies, experience with OpenStack, software delivery or operations (Python, Go, C/C++, Java or similar), testing and maintainable code practices, system administration (Ubuntu/Debian a plus), agile methods, and experience managing distributed teams. Travel ~20%.

Canonical seeks an Engineering Manager for IAM to hire and lead a software engineering team building Go and Python services for identity and access management (SSO) used across company products. The role involves designing and implementing distributed systems, working with Kubernetes and container technologies, ensuring security and performance, participating in observability and open source community activities, and travelling internationally twice a year.

Lead and grow an engineering team building fault-tolerant, scalable data platform solutions (covering Big Data, MySQL and other data stores) for Kubernetes and cloud. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, contributing code, setting engineering practices around performance and quality, collaborating with leaders and stakeholders, and participating in open-source development. Remote role filled across Europe, Middle East, Africa or the Americas; global travel twice yearly.

Engineering Manager role based remotely in EMEA responsible for leading software engineering teams that build and operate core internal services (billing, business systems, data governance, Livepatch). Requires an undergraduate technical degree or equivalent experience, software development experience in high-level languages (Golang, Python, Java), strong written and spoken English, team leadership, and willingness to travel internationally twice a year.

Canonical seeks an Engineering Manager for Ceph & distributed storage to build and manage a globally distributed engineering team, contribute technically, set schedules and expectations, advance agile practices, ensure software quality and documentation, and coach and develop engineers. Role is home-based across Americas and EMEA with up to ~20% travel.

Lead a remote engineering team in your time zone to build clean web service APIs (supporting CLI and web clients) and scalable microservices in Python (Golang optional) for Canonical's software distribution systems (Snap Store, Charmhub). Responsibilities include people management, mentoring, code review, architectural leadership, ensuring testing/quality, performance optimisation, and collaborating with product, architects and security. Role may require travel up to four times a year and is open to candidates in the Americas, Europe, Middle East or Africa time zones.

Lead and develop a security engineering team working on AppArmor (mandatory access control) for Ubuntu. Responsibilities include line management, coaching and career development, implementing engineering processes, planning and delivering projects, representing the team to stakeholders and customers, and collaborating with security engineering leadership. Role expects proficiency in C, knowledge of Linux kernel development and Linux Security Modules, experience in agile development, strong English communication, and ability to travel twice a year for company events.