The role owns the holistic technical vision and roadmap for Canonical's internal cloud and IT infrastructure, leading and coaching SREs and data center engineers on automation, reliability, scalability, networking and security. Responsibilities include designing hardware/software implementations (from PCI lanes to CDN), collaborating with cloud-ops teams, defining self‑service solutions, performing incident analysis and establishing operational practices across a global distributed environment. The position is home-based in EMEA with approximately four weeks' travel per year.

Canonical is hiring Golang engineers (all seniority levels) to design, implement, test and operate Go software used across Ubuntu-related systems. Roles require strong Linux experience, proficiency in Go, and for senior roles experience with distributed systems and APIs. The position is fully remote with occasional travel (up to twice yearly) for in-person team events.

Remote staff-level role working on authentication and authorization across Canonical products and websites. Responsibilities include designing and implementing IAM features and web service APIs (Go, Python), crafting end-user authentication flows, writing Juju charms, and modernizing the identity stack; requires experience with IAM standards (OpenID, OAuth, LDAP), authorization in distributed systems, secure coding, and working on Ubuntu. Role includes international travel ~2x/year.

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 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.

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.

Canonical is seeking a Software Engineer for Distributed Systems Testing to build automated testing infrastructure and CI pipelines for cloud orchestration tools and applications. The role involves developing test automation, deploying and debugging distributed systems across clouds and bare metal, monitoring and reporting test results, and advancing AI/ML pipelines for test analysis. Required skills include Python or Go, CI tools (Jenkins/CircleCI/GitHub Actions), Linux fundamentals, networking, and distributed systems testing.