Remote Linux Engineer: Optimizing Ubuntu on Next-Gen Silicon

Canonical Ltd.; Riyadh; Remote; SAR 337,000 - 487,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget

Annual bonus or commission

Travel opportunities for events

Wellness Platform

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a skilled engineer for the Partner Engineering team to optimize Ubuntu across silicon platforms. The role emphasizes collaboration within a distributed team, contributing to high-quality open source software, and shaping Ubuntu's future with new ideas.

Remote work is global, with occasional in-person events. The candidate should have a strong background in C, C++, Python, and Linux packaging, plus interest in open source maintenance and package management.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Skills

C

C++

Python

Linux packaging

Open source maintenance

Package management

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Canonical is seeking a skilled engineer for the Partner Engineering team to optimize Ubuntu across silicon platforms. The role emphasizes collaboration within a distributed team, contributing to high-quality open source software, and shaping Ubuntu's future with new ideas.

Remote work is global, with occasional in-person events. The candidate should have a strong background in C, C++, Python, and Linux packaging, plus interest in open source maintenance and package management.