Linux Devices Engineer — SnapD, IoT & Containers (Remote)

Remote Jobs; Canada (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed team sprints

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Wellness program

Travel opportunities to meet teammates

Priority Pass for events

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Linux devices software engineer on the SnapD team to work on mission-critical Golang code, focused on software delivery, containers, security sandboxing, telemetry and device management.

Location: remote in the EMEA or Americas regions, with occasional in-person team sprints and travel. You will collaborate with a distributed team, write high-quality code, review others’ work, and maintain strong testing practices and Linux fundamentals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Experience with Go, Python, C, or C++.
• Knowledge of Linux system-level fundamentals (e.g., cgroups, namespaces, AppArmor).
• Commitment to software testing, code reviews and maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team.
• Write high quality code to create new features.
• Debug Linux system level issues and produce high quality code to fix them.
• Review code produced by other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
• Obsess over robustness despite power outages.
• Work from home with global travel for up to two weeks, twice a year.

Skills

Go

Python

C

C++

Linux basics

Testing

Code reviews

Open source

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar

Job description

Canonical is hiring a Linux devices software engineer on the SnapD team to work on mission-critical Golang code, focused on software delivery, containers, security sandboxing, telemetry and device management.

Location: remote in the EMEA or Americas regions, with occasional in-person team sprints and travel. You will collaborate with a distributed team, write high-quality code, review others’ work, and maintain strong testing practices and Linux fundamentals.