The Canonical Kernel Team seeks an engineer to own aspects of the boot process, BIOS/UEFI, ACPI (including AML) and other platform firmware components for the Ubuntu Linux kernel. Responsibilities include collaborating with platform vendors and a distributed team, contributing to and maintaining the Firmware Test Suite (FWTS), improving tooling/automation, and submitting/reviewing kernel patches with upstream maintainers. Requires strong C programming, familiarity with ACPI and UEFI, git, and knowledge of the x86 bootstrap process. Ability to travel internationally twice a year. Additional useful skills: Python, Bash, coreboot, packaging and kernel debugging.

Work remotely in EMEA on Ubuntu Core to design and implement low-level embedded Linux components (bootloaders, boot mechanisms, storage layout, device trees, kernel, services). Requires experience with C or Go and Shell, strong Linux knowledge, familiarity with bootloaders (piboot, u-boot, grub-uefi), systemd/udev/initrd, and interest or experience in security features (TPM, LUKS, HSM). Role involves unit testing, debugging system-level issues, code review, and occasional global travel (2–4 times/year).

Canonical is hiring a home-based Travel Operations Specialist to support company meetings and industry events worldwide. Responsibilities include engaging with colleagues on travel queries, managing travel vendors and supplier relationships, checking invoices and credits, monitoring trends (spend and emissions) and compliance with travel policy, and tracking unused tickets and airline points. Role requires strong organisation, communication, attention to detail, and willingness to travel up to four times a year for events.

The Threat Intelligence Lead will own threat intelligence strategy and execution, build and maintain OSINT research environments, identify and track intrusion threats and TTPs, and advise product and engineering teams on mitigations. The role reports to the CISO, involves coordinating adversary/campaign tracking and contributing to the wider threat intelligence community, and requires willingness to travel twice yearly for in-person events.

Canonical is hiring a remote Telco Cloud Field Engineer covering Americas and EMEA to lead customers through design and delivery of OpenStack, Kubernetes and software-defined networking solutions. Responsibilities include translating service provider requirements into telco cloud architectures (VNF/CNF, NFV, MEC), pre-sales consulting, implementing multi-tenant private/micro clouds, automation/IaC, and supporting customer onboarding. The role requires strong telco cloud infrastructure knowledge, Linux, networking, Python, and the ability to travel up to 25%.

Canonical seeks a Technical Product Marketing Manager (EMEA, remote) to own GTM strategy, messaging, campaign and content planning for the security and compliance portfolio. The role requires close collaboration with product, engineering, sales, and marketing, strong technical understanding of cybersecurity and open source, and a data-driven approach to demand generation and funnel optimization.

Canonical seeks product managers with a technical background to set vision, prioritise work, and lead product lifecycles for Ubuntu and related open source offerings. The role is home based in the EMEA region, involves cross-functional collaboration, market research, usability testing, go-to-market activities and occasional international travel (up to ~4 times/year).

Lead and grow a globally distributed engineering team to define and execute the automotive engineering roadmap, ensure Linux distribution and products meet automotive and industrial standards (e.g., ISO21434, ISO26262, IEC 61508, ASPICE, UNECE R155/R156), represent Canonical in automotive communities and consortia, drive technical strategy, improve delivery quality and developer experience, and work cross-functionally with Product Management and senior leadership. Role requires hands-on software and embedded systems background (C/C++, Python), Linux expertise, experience with functional safety and automotive compliance, and people leadership in agile environments.

Canonical is hiring multiple remote Technical Authors (various seniority levels) to lead documentation for product, customer, or operations teams. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining documentation, collaborating with teams, promoting documentation standards (Diátaxis), engaging communities, and contributing to documentation practice. Candidates should have demonstrable documentation skills, familiarity with Linux, command line, Git, Sphinx and reStructuredText, and willingness to travel twice a year for team events.

Lead the graduate hiring strategy across EMEA with a focus on talent science: build partnerships with top universities, run talent analytics and dashboards (using SQL), design and streamline hiring processes and assessments (including psychometrics), conduct behavioural interviews, train stakeholders, and support diversity & inclusion. Role is remote with required travel 2–4 times per year.

Canonical is hiring a mid‑to‑senior Talent Scientist (remote, EMEA) to drive talent analytics, conduct behavioural interviews, interpret psychometric assessments, build stakeholder relationships, streamline hiring processes, and produce data‑driven insights. Requires a psychology undergraduate/graduate degree, strong analytical skills (SQL; Python or advanced statistics preferred), experience in tech/consulting hiring, and willingness to travel 2–4 times/year for up to two weeks.

Canonical seeks a Python Engineering Manager based remotely in EMEA to lead teams in the Commercial Systems unit. Responsibilities include accountability for an internal product's design and development, developing direct reports, driving process and design improvements, and aligning engineering work with business needs. Relevant domain areas in the unit include data governance (Trino, Ranger), SaaS user management and onboarding, ETL/integrations, and performance/SRE practices. Role requires professional English and ability to travel internationally twice a year.

Globally remote sustaining operations role providing final-point escalation for complex Linux and open-source stack issues. Responsibilities include deep debugging and troubleshooting across layers (bare metal, virtualization, containerization, storage, networking), collaborating with field/support/product teams, producing workarounds and upstream fixes, and participating in weekend rotations and occasional international travel (≈10%).

Responsible for managing a professional, distributed support team including skills development, performance management, operational control and meeting SLAs. Role requires strong Linux CLI experience, leadership and customer-focus, with work on Ubuntu, cloud (including OpenStack/public cloud) and virtualization technologies, and contribution to support knowledge and processes.

Canonical is hiring senior/staff Security Operations Engineers to implement and evolve SecOps standards, security architecture, tooling, threat modelling, and incident response across Canonical's infrastructure and Ubuntu estate. Candidates should demonstrate strong academic performance and expertise in threat modelling, threat intelligence, risk management frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF), and security controls; experience ranges from exceptional early-career individuals to those with deep experience defending against APTs and state-level actors.

Lead Canonical's effort to make Ubuntu suitable for highly regulated, mission-critical systems by translating regulatory and certification demands into concrete engineering practices. Work across teams to define and implement continuous improvement processes, qualification requirements, and quality measurement methods; engage with external standards groups. Requires strong engineering and process management experience in agile environments, knowledge or certification of standards such as ISO/IEC 25010 or ASPICE, experience with Linux, and experience leading compliance and certification efforts.

Canonical is hiring a Solutions Architect for Automotive to support partners and prospects in adopting Ubuntu and related open source technologies. Responsibilities include engaging customers during presales, delivering embedded Linux demos and PoCs, liaising with internal experts to build solutions, and conveying market requirements. Requires extensive Linux and embedded experience (Yocto/RTOS), programming/scripting (Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust), strong communication and customer-facing skills, and willingness to travel up to 30%.

Work remotely worldwide to resolve complex customer problems across the stack (kernel, virtualization, containers, storage, networking, OpenStack, Kubernetes). Responsibilities include troubleshooting, developing bug fixes and backports, working with upstream projects, code review, and collaborating with field, support and product engineering teams. Role may require up to ~10% international travel for team meetings and events.

Remote role (worldwide) resolving complex customer issues across the open-source stack including Linux kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes and related layers. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, developing bug fixes and backports, working with upstream communities, code review, and collaborating with field/support/product teams. Role requires experience with Linux and at least one of Python, Go, C or C++ and includes up to ~10% international travel for team events.

Work remotely on Ubuntu and related open source stack (kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes, virtualization and containerization). Troubleshoot complex customer issues, develop and backport bug fixes for upstream inclusion, work with field/support/product teams, review code, and travel internationally up to ~10% for events.