Remote Graduate Software Engineer – Open Source & Ubuntu

Canonical Ltd.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed team with biannual sprints

Learning & development budget

Annual compensation review

Paid holidays

Travel opportunities

Wellness & support

Job summary

Canonical is hiring 2025 and 2026 Graduate Software Engineers into engineering teams around the world. This globally remote role offers exposure to Python, Golang, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Bash, working on Linux, containers and cloud platforms.

You will join a highly collaborative environment with biannual in-person sprints and set ambitious, impactful project goals. You will develop high quality code, contribute to open source, and learn across a wide range of technologies while growing your

Qualifications

• Outstanding academic track record at school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a STEM discipline with programming courses.
• Professional written and spoken English.
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events.

Responsibilities

• Shape the roadmap for your product at global sprints every six months.
• Focus on design and user experience, even for developer tooling and command line apps.
• Write high quality, resilient and performant code serving millions of users.
• Develop mastery of key programming languages and Linux system knowledge.
• Engage with users and the open source community through code reviews and issue trackers.
• Respond to customer issues as a priority and understand enterprise requirements.
• Develop skills and awareness of security in software design and implementation.

Skills

Python

Golang

Rust

C/C++

JavaScript

Linux

Bash

English communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Git

Linux

Job description

Canonical is hiring 2025 and 2026 Graduate Software Engineers into engineering teams around the world. This globally remote role offers exposure to Python, Golang, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Bash, working on Linux, containers and cloud platforms.

You will join a highly collaborative environment with biannual in-person sprints and set ambitious, impactful project goals. You will develop high quality code, contribute to open source, and learn across a wide range of technologies while growing your