Senior Open Source Engineer | Remote Technical Leader

Canonical Ltd.; Riyadh; Remote; SAR 562,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity and paternity leave

Travel opportunities for companys/meet

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Senior+ Engineer to shape open-source platforms across the stack—from kernel and system software to language runtimes and cloud automation. You will lead architecture, drive design decisions, and contribute high-quality code in Go, Rust, Python, or C, while mentoring a globally distributed team.

This remote role offers opportunities across time zones, collaboration with engineering leaders, and travel twice yearly for company events.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
• Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace.
• Deep experience with at least one of Go, Rust, Python or C.
• Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance.
• Excellent communication skills including professional written and spoken English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each.

Responsibilities

• Leading design and architecture of an impactful open source project.
• Coding in Golang, Rust, Python, C/C++ or Typescript / React.
• Collaborating proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Mentoring, developing and advising colleagues in their career progression.
• Displaying technical leadership in Canonical and our communities.
• Debugging issues and producing high-quality code to fix them.
• Contributing to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind.
• Working from home with global travel twice annually for company events.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

C

Technical leadership

Mentoring

English communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in CS or STEM

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

LXD

OpenStack

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Senior+ Engineer to shape open-source platforms across the stack—from kernel and system software to language runtimes and cloud automation. You will lead architecture, drive design decisions, and contribute high-quality code in Go, Rust, Python, or C, while mentoring a globally distributed team.

This remote role offers opportunities across time zones, collaboration with engineering leaders, and travel twice yearly for company events.