Canonical is hiring Senior+ Engineers (Senior/Staff/Principal) for remote roles worldwide. The role involves leading design and architecture, contributing high-quality code (Go, Rust, Python, C/C++, TypeScript/React), collaborating with distributed teams, mentoring colleagues, debugging, and writing technical documentation. Candidates should have strong technical leadership, a solid academic background or equivalent experience, and be able to travel twice yearly for company events.

Canonical seeks an experienced senior Python developer with MongoDB experience to help build a fully managed MongoDB solution using Juju. The role focuses on reliable, secure deployment and operation of MongoDB across machines, VMs, public cloud, Kubernetes and on-premise environments, and involves infrastructure deployment automation, systems administration, package management, and automated testing.

Join the Canonical MAAS team to develop and shape MAAS core components and architecture (Python/Go). Work on large-scale bare-metal provisioning, networking (PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP), storage and integration with cloud infrastructure. Contribute to CI, tests, documentation and collaborate with distributed teams. Role is remote across Americas and EMEA and requires international travel several times per year.

Remote senior SRE/GitOps role on Canonical's Information Systems team. Drive automation and GitOps practices, design and maintain infrastructure as code across private and public clouds, maintain operational responsibility for core services, and implement observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch). Requires strong Linux, cloud, Python and Kubernetes experience and working with distributed teams.

Canonical is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a globally remote role. The role emphasizes Python software-engineering applied to operations, automation and infrastructure-as-code across bare metal, OpenStack, Kubernetes, software-defined storage and public/private cloud. Requirements include strong Python development skills, Linux experience (networking and storage), operational experience and the ability to work under pressure. Travel internationally up to twice a year for team events.

Canonical is hiring a Senior Juju Software Engineer (Go) to design, deliver, and support features in a highly concurrent, distributed system that powers cloud automation. The role requires professional Go experience, strong communication in English, knowledge of cloud and container technologies, and working in open source environments. Remote-first position (home based/E M E A emphasis) with travel for team events.

Canonical is hiring Rust Engineering Leads (all seniority levels) to design and implement Rust software, advocate Rust adoption, debug and maintain system-level Linux software, participate in code and architecture reviews, and collaborate with upstream communities. Roles are fully home-based, require strong Linux and Rust experience, and may involve travel twice yearly.

Canonical is hiring Python engineers for remote roles worldwide to develop and maintain open-source software and services related to Ubuntu. Responsibilities include writing well-designed, tested Python code, debugging, contributing documentation, and collaborating with distributed teams. Candidates should have professional English, experience with Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), and strong Python development and testing skills. Occasional global travel (up to twice a year) is required.

Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable microservices and APIs in Go and/or Python; work on database performance, multi-region delivery, tracing/profiling, security analysis, CI/CD and DevOps practices. Remote, home-based role with global collaboration and travel twice yearly.

Work across the full Linux stack (kernel through networking, virtualization and graphics) to design and implement Ubuntu integrations for new hardware. Collaborate with silicon partners to optimise performance, build device OS images, integrate SDKs/apps, and define testing and quality strategies. Required experience includes Linux packaging, open source collaboration and programming in Python, C and C++.

Canonical seeks a Golang Software Engineer (any seniority) to join Commercial Systems, developing and operating backend services (Billing, Contracts, or Livepatch) that integrate with business systems. Responsibilities include designing solutions, leading technical design and code reviews, deploying and operating services, and mentoring colleagues. Requirements: experience with Go, strong engineering quality, English communication, and ability to travel internationally twice a year. Nice-to-haves: performance engineering, security, and experience with accounting/sales domains.

Lead the design and implementation of an advanced automated Linux kernel build/control system and work with engineering teams to integrate into the Canonical ecosystem. Requires strong experience with kernel build systems (kbuild, kconfig, make), kernel patching, advanced git usage, and significant Python programming (C skills highly regarded). Familiarity with Yocto/buildroot, CI/CD, packaging (Ubuntu/Debian/Snap), and CLI/REST tooling is desirable. Role is senior and requires leadership and effective English communication; home-based within Europe, Middle East, or Africa with periodic in-person team sprints.

Work on Juju, a large open-source Go project for model-driven operations across public/private cloud, Kubernetes, and bare metal. Role involves designing, delivering and supporting features in a highly concurrent distributed system, collaborating with a distributed team, interacting with upstream communities, and travelling up to four times per year. Required: experience developing in Go and excellent English communication.

Work on low-level Go code between the REST API and C libraries for LXD, designing and implementing system-level features, modeling data and database schemas stored in dqlite, and maintaining code quality with static analysis and tests. Requires experience with Go and C, knowledge of networking and storage, and experience with at least two of cloud computing, virtualization, containers, distributed systems or open source community involvement. Remote role available in EMEA and the Americas with periodic travel (2–4 weeks/year).

Work on a new open-source developer tooling product integrated with Ubuntu desktop, IDEs, and vendor SDKs. Responsibilities include designing user experience, writing high-quality Go code, ensuring correctness, performance and security, and collaborating across teams. Requires professional development experience (Go, Python, C or C++), knowledge of Linux system-level fundamentals (e.g., cgroups, namespaces). Nice-to-have: LXC/LXD, AI/ML and CUDA/OpenVINO, and package manager internals. Role is remote within APAC time zones and requires travel twice yearly for company events.

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 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 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.

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%.

Design and implement Ubuntu integrations for IoT and server-class platforms, working with silicon partners and customers to build OS images, integrate SDKs, and optimise performance across Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server. Requires experience with Linux packaging (Debian/RPM/Yocto), C/C++, embedded/IoT hardware (SoC, bootloaders, firmware), containers (Docker/OCI, Kubernetes) and networking protocols.