Jobs at Canonical

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.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

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%.

Define and drive UX strategy for Canonical's cloud networking products. Design interfaces and prototypes (GUI and terminal) for complex networking concepts, create scalable design systems, conduct user research with DevOps/SRE/network teams, mentor designers, and own cross-product working groups to improve network troubleshooting, observability, and configuration experiences at scale.

Provide technical IFRS accounting and reporting support, research and interpret accounting standards, prepare accounting papers and statutory accounts, support audits and month-end reporting, improve financial processes, and help ready the business for IPO.

The Sales Development Representative will handle customer inquiries, execute sales campaigns, collaborate with teams, generate leads, and identify market trends.

Lead user research by collecting and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data, run A/B and usability studies, build lightweight prototypes and dashboards, promote research-driven decision making, scale research ops, and train teams to integrate user science across product and engineering.

Manage a portfolio of enterprise customers (Japanese-speaking), onboard and guide adoption of Canonical products, coordinate cross-functional projects, drive renewals and expansion, advocate customer needs internally, run reviews, support reactive tickets, and create digital campaigns.

Lead GTM strategy and product positioning for key products, create messaging and content, run campaigns and launches, analyze market and competitive trends, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive adoption, pipeline growth, and customer engagement.