Linux Engineer for Next-Gen Silicon & Ubuntu Stack — Remote

Canonical Ltd.; Kuwait City; Remote; KWD 23,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed work environment

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Team Member Assistance Program & 1

Wellness Platform

Travel to new locations for events

Priority Pass and travel upgrades

Job summary

Canonical is seeking open-source enthusiasts for the Partner Engineering Team to optimize Ubuntu across silicon architectures and environments. This globally remote role collaborates with distributed engineers to ensure high-quality stacks from AI to IoT, delivering silicon-enabled packages and robust platform experiences.

You will work with teams across Ubuntu, Debian, upstream projects, and customers to ship optimized software, participate in architecture discussions, and help customers

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.
• Love technology and working with brilliant people.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• Value building partnerships with a diverse set of internal and external groups.
• Strong fundamentals in C, C++ and Python.
• Experience or interest in learning Linux distribution packaging.
• Experience or Interest in open source maintenance or contribution and licenses.
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution.

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 other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers.
• Debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code.
• Helping our customers to integrate their apps, SDKs, build OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server.
• Maintaining Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across platforms and technologies such as servers, HPC/AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs and automotive systems, AI stacks, graphics/audio/multimedia stacks, virtualization/containers, hardware enablement, new architectures, package management, and platform security.
• Working with a team to travel for internal events and contribute to a distributed work model.

Skills

C

C++

Python

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OCI

Job description

Canonical is seeking open-source enthusiasts for the Partner Engineering Team to optimize Ubuntu across silicon architectures and environments. This globally remote role collaborates with distributed engineers to ensure high-quality stacks from AI to IoT, delivering silicon-enabled packages and robust platform experiences.

You will work with teams across Ubuntu, Debian, upstream projects, and customers to ship optimized software, participate in architecture discussions, and help customers