Jobs at Canonical

Leads revenue accounting and recognition across global contracts, products, and systems. The role designs scalable IFRS 15 and ASC 606 processes, improves NetSuite automation, evaluates complex contracts, supports month-end close, maintains controls, prepares accounting policies, and liaises with auditors. It also manages and develops a revenue accounting team while partnering with product, legal, sales, FP&A, and systems teams.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Leads global FP&A teams and oversees forecasting, annual planning, financial modeling, executive reporting, KPI analysis, and strategic commercial insights. Partners with Accounting, Investor Relations, product teams, and executives on financial reporting, IPO materials, process improvements, cost control, and cross-functional initiatives. The role also mentors FP&A colleagues and develops the team’s long-term roadmap in a global technology business.

Plan and manage QA strategies for Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Core, IoT, and hardware products. Build automated testing capabilities, perform manual and automated tests, identify and document defects, triage reports, collect quality data, and improve QA processes. Collaborate with global engineering and project teams to deliver reliable Ubuntu platforms and support continuous quality improvement.

Leads Canonical’s global Legal and Compliance function, advising executive leadership and the Board while building a distributed legal team. Owns corporate governance, public-market readiness, commercial contracting, intellectual property, open source licensing, regulatory compliance, litigation, M&A, and external counsel management. The role requires substantial senior in-house technology experience, active legal licensure, global team leadership, and expertise across multiple regulatory disciplines. It is remote within EMEA time zones and includes international travel two to four times annually.

Lead and develop a distributed team of software and quality engineers building automated testing infrastructure for cloud-native and distributed systems. Set engineering standards, shape architecture and technical strategy, improve CI pipelines and test tooling, and guide reliability, resilience, interoperability, and performance validation across bare-metal and public cloud environments. Contribute through code reviews, debugging, design discussions, and cross-functional collaboration while enabling globally distributed engineering teams.

Leads Canonical’s global Legal and Compliance function, advising executives and the Board while building a distributed legal team. Responsibilities include public-market readiness, corporate governance, commercial contracting, intellectual property and open-source licensing, privacy, export controls, anti-bribery, competition and AI regulation. The role also oversees litigation, regulatory engagement, external counsel, M&A, partnerships and financing. It is remote in EMEA time zones, with optional London office work and international travel two to four times annually.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Own product marketing for a Canonical product area, including positioning, messaging, launches, competitive intelligence, sales enablement, customer research, and demand-generation campaigns. The role requires translating technical open source solutions for developer and executive audiences, influencing product, sales, and marketing stakeholders, using data to improve outcomes, and mentoring other marketers. This is a fully remote EMEA role with periodic international team travel.

Designs and owns Canonical’s global internal audit function, including audit infrastructure, risk registers, control testing, process walkthroughs, audit programs, reporting, and remediation tracking. The role partners with stakeholders and senior leadership to identify risks, improve controls, and support scalable global operations. It reports to the CFO and Audit Committee and requires international travel two to four times annually.

Manage multi-country payroll operations, compliance, audits, controls, vendor relationships, payroll analysis, and process improvements. Lead payroll system automation and scalability initiatives while ensuring accurate and timely processing across jurisdictions. Partner with finance, HR, treasury, and external providers, monitor regulatory changes, and mentor a global payroll team in a distributed technology environment.

Embedded in teams to assess organizational health and management effectiveness, using engagement, 360-degree feedback, and direct feedback diagnostics. Designs and drives improvements from diagnosis through implementation, supports managers with performance feedback, contributes to organizational-development playbooks, and learns coaching from senior practitioners. The role is remote across EMEA and the Americas, with travel for internal events up to four times annually.

Lead marketing initiatives to generate awareness and engagement for products, managing campaigns, collaborating cross-functionally, and optimizing based on data.

This role involves driving revenue growth through strategic relationships and partnerships in Sales and Alliances, focusing on the technology industry.

Join Canonical's Talent Science team to assist in hiring processes using data analysis and behavioral science. Ideal for recent graduates with a psychology background, the role offers opportunities for analytical project work and stakeholder relationships.

As a Senior+ Engineer, you'll design and architect impactful open-source projects, lead teams, and contribute high-quality code within Canonical's global structure.

Lead the Talent Science team ensuring data-driven processes for recruitment, coaching team members, and delivering strategic project outcomes.

The Business Services Team Manager at Canonical leads travel, logistics, events, and expense management, requiring coordination and effective decision-making while ensuring a high level of accountability across teams.

Lead territory sales for Ubuntu embedded solutions in Japan, prospecting and closing deals, managing strategic accounts, coordinating with field engineers and internal teams, maintaining Salesforce forecasts, and meeting annual bookings quotas while traveling for customer engagements and company events.

Drive territory sales for Ubuntu embedded products across APAC, prospect and develop strategic accounts, meet bookings quota, close complex technical deals, coordinate with field engineers and internal teams, maintain Salesforce forecasts, and travel up to 50%.