Jobs at Canonical
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Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular Linux distribution, and a leading provider of open‑source cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical delivers Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, and the Snap packaging system that powers millions of servers and IoT devices. The company’s influence spans cloud, containers, edge computing, and AI, making it a key player for developers and enterprises seeking reliable, secure, and scalable solutions.
Canonical hires across a broad spectrum of technical and non‑technical roles. Software engineers work on the Ubuntu kernel, cloud image building, and the Snapcraft toolchain. DevOps and Site Reliability teams maintain large‑scale deployments in public clouds. Security engineers focus on hardening the OS and supply‑chain integrity. Outside engineering, Canonical looks for product managers, sales engineers, marketing specialists, and customer support experts who can articulate the value of open‑source solutions to diverse audiences.
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Go (Golang) Software Engineer - Developer Tooling and Containers
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on Ubuntu. They are hiring a Go Golang Software Engineer to work on a new open source developer experience tool, aiming to improve developer workflows and productivity. The role requires experience with Go, Linux system-level fundamentals, and containers, and offers a distributed work environment with opportunities for international travel.
Marketing Manager
Company: Canonical
Location: EMEA
Posted Nov 30, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI engineering, and IoT. The company is hiring a Marketing Manager to lead marketing initiatives and generate awareness, engagement, and pipeline for their products. The role involves end-to-end go-to-market planning, campaign execution, and collaboration with various teams. Canonical offers a fully remote working environment, personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, and more.
Accounts Receivable Clerk
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They offer an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Receivable Clerk to join their growing team. The company values diversity, offers career development opportunities, and has a distributed work environment.
Lead Golang Software Engineer - Commercial Systems
Company: Canonical
Location: EMEA
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. The company is hiring a Lead Golang Software Engineer to work on various engineering teams, including the Billing, Contracts, and Livepatch teams. The role involves developing engineering solutions, leading technical designs, code reviews, and implementation, deploying and operating services, coaching and mentoring colleagues, and developing great engineering and organizational practices.
Linux Software Engineer - Ubuntu for Next-Gen Silicon (multiple roles and seniority levels)
Company: Canonical
Location: North America,Latin America,APAC,EMEA
Posted Nov 29, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on Ubuntu. The company is globally distributed, with a remote-first work environment and a focus on collaboration and innovation. Canonical offers competitive compensation and benefits, and is an equal opportunity employer.
Embedded IoT / Edge Solutions Sales Representative - Manager and Director
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems, with a focus on enterprise and technology markets. Their platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in various industries, including public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with a distributed team across 75+ countries. They are hiring for various roles, including Embedded IoT, Edge Solutions Sales Representatives, Managers, and Directors, to expand their reach in mission-critical industries. Canonical provides a comprehensive portfolio of Linux solutions, emphasizing security, reliability, developer productivity, and footprint.
Head of Talent Development
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They are a pioneer in global distributed collaboration and are building a Talent Development function to enhance leadership and people management practices in their remote setting. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Software Engineer - Python/Golang - Kubernetes
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They offer a remote software engineer position to join their Kubernetes product team, focusing on building operators and addons. The company values diversity, offers a distributed work environment, and provides benefits like a personal learning budget and annual compensation reviews.
Web Developer
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Nov 29, 2025
Canonical is a leading open-source provider with a mission to make software accessible globally. They offer competitive benefits, remote work, and opportunities for growth in a collaborative environment.
Ubuntu Core Software Engineer
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on Ubuntu. They are hiring a Ubuntu Core Software Engineer to work on embedded Linux systems in IoT, automotive, and aviation. The role involves designing and implementing software for various CPU architectures, collaborating with a distributed team, and reviewing code. Canonical offers a distributed work environment, personal learning budget, and other benefits.
Visual Designer
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical, a leading provider of open source software, is hiring Visual Designers for Brand and Design Systems. The role involves working remotely in the EMEA region to evolve brand guidelines, apply them to communications materials, UI design systems, and graphic design for digital products. The company offers a distributed work environment, personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave, employee assistance program, and the opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
Python and Kubernetes Software Engineer - Data, Workflows, AI/ML & Analytics
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 01, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on Ubuntu. They offer a wide range of solutions for public cloud, data science, AI, engineering, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with a distributed team of over 1000 colleagues in 70+ countries. They are hiring Python and Kubernetes Specialist Engineers to work on open source solutions for public cloud and private infrastructure.