Remote Linux Engineer for Next-Gen Silicon & Ubuntu

Canonical Ltd.; Karachi Division; Remote; PKR 24,931,000 - 36,011,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal learning budget USD 2,000 per

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Team travel opportunities

Travel upgrades for long-haul company

Wellness Platform

Job summary

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. We are a globally remote team with a focus on Ubuntu development spanning silicon, AI stacks, and cloud platforms.

The Partner Engineering role involves collaborating across distributed teams, contributing to a wide range of stacks, and helping customers integrate apps and build OS images.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen 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 both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done 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.
• Working with a team to maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across platforms and technologies such as Servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs and automotive systems, AI stacks, Graphics, audio and multimedia stacks, Virtualisation and Containers, Hardware enablement stacks, New architectures, architecture variants and optimized toolchains, Package management and dependencies, Platform security (secure boot, FDE, Ubuntu Core, Confidential Computing).
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal events

Skills

C

C++

Python

Linux packaging

Open source maintenance

Package management

Collaboration

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. We are a globally remote team with a focus on Ubuntu development spanning silicon, AI stacks, and cloud platforms.

The Partner Engineering role involves collaborating across distributed teams, contributing to a wide range of stacks, and helping customers integrate apps and build OS images.