Remote Linux Engineer: Ubuntu on Next-Gen Silicon

Canonical Ltd.; Paris; Remote; EUR 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal learning budget USD 2,000 per

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a highly collaborative Partner Engineer to optimize Ubuntu across silicon platforms and open source ecosystems. You will work with worldwide teams to enable new silicon technologies, AI stacks, and secure packaging, while maintaining high-quality software for servers, IoT, and edge devices.

You'll operate in a globally remote role, collaborating with Debian communities, upstream projects, and customers, traveling 2–4 weeks annually for internal events and strategy alignment.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record in high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject.
• Strong fundamentals in C, C++ and Python.
• Experience or interest in learning Linux distribution packaging.
• Experience or interest in open source maintenance or contribution.
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating proactively within a distributed team.
• Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users.
• Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards.
• Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via new ideas and advising on work elsewhere.
• Collaborating with Ubuntu and Debian communities, upstream projects, and customers.
• Debugging issues on open source code and team-maintained code.
• Helping customers to integrate apps, SDKs, build OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Docker

OCI

Kubernetes

Linux packaging

Job description

Canonical is seeking a highly collaborative Partner Engineer to optimize Ubuntu across silicon platforms and open source ecosystems. You will work with worldwide teams to enable new silicon technologies, AI stacks, and secure packaging, while maintaining high-quality software for servers, IoT, and edge devices.

You'll operate in a globally remote role, collaborating with Debian communities, upstream projects, and customers, traveling 2–4 weeks annually for internal events and strategy alignment.