We deliver open source to the world faster,  more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.

We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the world's most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. 
Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'​. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.

Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.

Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

canonical

<p>Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.</p>
<p>The company is founder led, profitable and growing.</p>
<p>We are hiring <strong>2025 and 2026 Graduate Software Engineers</strong> into engineering teams around the world. As a global platform company we offer a wide range of software engineering challenges, in both open source products and commercial business systems. We have teams that work in a variety of languages, typically Python, Golang, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and of course... Bash. We work from the very lowest levels of the Linux system - BIOS and boot loaders, firmware, kernel and drivers, all the way up to desktop applications and containers. We work on tiny devices like the Raspberry Pi and new RISC-V boards, all the way up to supercomputers, clouds and Kubernetes clusters. We work on compilers and toolchains, and we work on security, cryptography, performance and documentation. Some of our teams focus on packaging thousands of pieces of software, others focus on deep contributions to a single body of code.</p>
<p>If you are excited about the potential that open source has for humanity and the enterprise, you have outstanding results in your academic career, and you are excited to contribute to the open source stack, this is the best way to apply to Canonical. We will work with you to identify teams and projects that would be interesting and a good fit for your skills and motivations. The process is highly competitive, it will require effort and excellence to succeed if you apply here.</p>
<p>Most of our engineering teams work from home. We try to align a single team in a single time zone - EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), APAC (Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean), and AMER (North, South and Central Americas). Even though you work from home, we try to ensure you always have colleagues alongside to coach and mentor you, and for the companionship of shared problem solving and pair programming. Larger projects have multiple teams and might span the globe. We work with the open source community and specialize in building teams that work well in the 'fishbowl' of open source engineering. This is full time work, five days a week, often solving hard problems with significant responsibility. We don't generally work weekends and nights and we do enjoy good holidays but we also expect productive and intense engagement Monday to Friday.</p>
<p>We bring all our engineering teams together in person twice a year for a deep 'sprint' with other teams to stimulate discussion and enable a wide range of career development paths. This is a fantastic way to demonstrate and develop your skill in software, learn about a wide range of technologies, make a meaningful impact to open source, and see some very interesting new cities that you might never otherwise get to visit.</p>
<p>If you find the open source stack amazing, and you have been a consistent high-performing student in your school and university, then this will be a challenging and exciting start to your career.</p>
<p><strong>Location: </strong>This is a Globally remote role.</p>
<h3>The role entails</h3>
<ul>
<li>Shaping the roadmap for your product at global sprints every six months</li>
<li>Focusing on design and user experience, even for developer tooling and command line apps</li>
<li>Writing high quality, resilient and performant code, potentially serving millions of demanding daily users</li>
<li>Working towards mastery of key programming languages and Linux system knowledge</li>
<li>Engaging with users and the open source community through code reviews and issue trackers</li>
<li>Responding to customer issues as a priority, develop an understanding of enterprise requirements</li>
<li>Developing skills and awareness of security in software design and implementation</li>
</ul>
<h3>What we are looking for in you</h3>
<ul>
<li>Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university</li>
<li>Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics or another STEM discipline with programming courses</li>
<li>Confidence to get started and deliver high quality code in one of Python, Rust, C/C++, Golang, JavaScript or Java</li>
<li>Experience with Ubuntu or another Linux distribution</li>
<li>Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results</li>
<li>Result-oriented and organized, with the drive to meet commitments</li>
<li>Personal projects in technology and software engineering beyond the curriculum</li>
<li>Professional written and spoken English</li>
<li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability</li>
<li>Personal responsibility and accountability</li>
<li>Thoughtfulness, self-awareness and the ability to reflect and develop</li>
<li>Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long</li>
</ul>
<h3>Nice-to-have skills</h3>
<ul>
<li>Upstream open source contributions</li>
<li>Packaging and Linux distribution contributions - Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix or another</li>
<li>Leadership and organization skills</li>
<li>Presentation and writing skills</li>
<li>Business and commercial interests</li>
</ul>
<h3>What we offer colleagues</h3>
<p>We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li>
<li>Annual compensation review</li>
<li>Recognition rewards</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave</li>
<li>Team Member Assistance Program &amp; Wellness Platform</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues</li>
<li>Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events</li>
</ul>
<h3>About Canonical</h3>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<h3>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</h3>
<p>We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. <a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity">Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.</a></p>
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Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

<p>With&nbsp;<strong>more than 10 billion pulls</strong>, Canonical's container images are trusted by developers worldwide to build and run software securely and at scale. That trust rests on our commitment to <strong>hardened, production-ready</strong> images.</p>
<p>We are advancing the state of the art with a <strong>new generation of Ubuntu-based container images</strong> we call "rocks": minimal images engineered for performance and usability and backed by long-term security commitments. As a member of the team, you will own the path from upstream source to published image, turning open source software into tested, signed, and continuously maintained artifacts that developers can deploy with confidence.</p>
<p>This is fast-paced, multi-disciplinary software engineering. Because most of the software we package originates from third-party upstreams, you will work across a broad range of container technologies and hundreds of open source projects, often in several programming languages, integrating and maintaining them so they are easy to consume on Ubuntu. Automation is central to the role: you will build the pipelines that package, build, test, and publish images at scale.</p>
<p>Your seniority in this role will reflect your software engineering experience and your ability to mentor and guide more junior colleagues.</p>
<p><strong>Location:</strong> <strong>This role is based in the EMEA region</strong></p>
<h2>This role entails</h2>
<ul>
<li>Build and maintain a growing portfolio of high-quality, hardened container images</li>
<li>Design and operate automated CI/CD pipelines that build, test, scan, sign, publish, promote, and retire images across environments and architectures</li>
<li>Write tooling and tests to assess security compliance and cloud-native compatibility</li>
<li>Work closely with the community and partners to share container expertise and keep our portfolio current with new features, patches, and applications</li>
<li>Collaborate with our product security, platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams</li>
<li>Contribute technical input to the team's decision-making</li>
<li>Set the standard for quality, defining image standards that span security, compatibility, performance, size, and developer experience</li>
<li>Grow our knowledge base and write about the work we do</li>
<li>Work in a collaborative, agile, and globally distributed environment</li>
<li>Mentor colleagues and contribute to hiring</li>
<li>Work from home with global travel of up to 15% for internal and external events</li>
</ul>
<h2>What we are looking for in you</h2>
<ul>
<li>Proficiency in Bash and Python</li>
<li>Experience working with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins)</li>
<li>Experience building container images</li>
<li>Command of at least one container management or orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes)</li>
<li>Hands-on experience with Linux systems, package management, build systems, release engineering, or artifact pipelines</li>
<li>Clear communication and end-to-end ownership, spanning design, review, documentation, operation, and cross-team collaboration</li>
<li>A commitment to sharing knowledge and helping those around you grow</li>
<li>A genuine appetite for learning and for working outside your comfort zone</li>
<li>A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, a STEM field, or a similar discipline</li>
<li>An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university</li>
<li>Business level written and spoken English.</li>
<li>Sincere personal motivation aligned with our mission.</li>
<li>International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long.</li>
<li>0-7 years relevant experience.</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition we expect that you will match our values, by being:</p>
<ul>
<li>Precise, taking care to deliver correctness and clarity.</li>
<li>Reliable, delivering high quality work that builds trust and confidence.</li>
<li>Accessible, collaborating to build products and systems that are usable.</li>
<li>Adroit, blending enthusiasm, knowledge, adaptability, style and character.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Nice-to-have skills</h2>
<ul>
<li>A security-oriented maintenance mindset: you can investigate dependency and vulnerability findings, assess their impact, and deliver a safe fix</li>
<li>An understanding of software supply chain security, with some experience generating and consuming artifacts such as SBOMs, signatures, provenance, or CVE reports</li>
<li>Familiarity with GitOps principles and workflows</li>
<li>Familiarity with additional languages such as Go or Rust</li>
<li>Hands-on experience building minimal and distroless container images</li>
<li>Knowledge of the OCI specifications</li>
<li>Familiarity with security or compliance frameworks such as CIS, NIST, FedRAMP, or DISA STIG</li>
<li>Evidence of contributions to open source projects</li>
<li>A passion for embedding security across all stages of the engineering lifecycle (DevSecOps), and an interest in using AI or agentic development responsibly and safely</li>
<li>Relevant Linux, container, or cloud-native certifications (such as CKS or DCA) are welcome</li>
</ul>
<p>If your experience is close but does not match every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We value transferable experience from Linux packaging, release engineering, build systems, platform engineering, and open-source maintenance.</p>
<h2>What we offer colleagues</h2>
<p>We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li>
<li>Bi-annual compensation review</li>
<li>Company recognition rewards</li>
<li>40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave</li>
<li>Team Member Assistance Program &amp; Wellness Platform</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access</li>
</ul>
<h2>About Canonical</h2>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p>
<p>Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<h3>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</h3>
<p>We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. <a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity">Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration</a>.</p>

Software Engineer - Secure Container Images

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring multiple positions from early-career engineers to experienced architects focused on the different dimensions of dependable software: cybersecurity, quality, and safety. What does it take to bring the world’s open source software into mission-critical systems? At Canonical, we are driving the engineering discipline needed to build secure, reliable, and high-quality products that our automotive and industrial partners can depend on. Ubuntu is already the world’s most widely used Linux distribution in general; we want to make it the world’s best choice for the automotive and industrial sectors too. We operate at the boundary between upstream open source innovation and the industrial regulatory realities. Our engineers define the concepts, architectures, processes, verification strategies, and certification artifacts to transform a general-purpose platform into a dependable, certifiable foundation for automotive and industrial compute. This is systems-level engineering at scale, requiring precision, rigor, and a deep understanding of how complex software behaves in constrained, regulated environments. We are looking for engineers and architects who combine an open source hacker and builder mindset with respect for rigorous, standards-driven engineering. You will work across Canonical engineering teams and with leading industrial partners, helping to build this capability from the ground up and shaping how open source enters the most demanding technical domains. Location: This is a remote role based in the EMEA region. The role entails Translate automotive and industrial cybersecurity, quality and safety standards into actionable engineering requirements and perform gap analyses against current capabilities. Drive the creation of structured engineering artifacts, including requirements, traceability models, risk analysis, test strategies, and certification documentation. Collaborate with Canonical engineering teams to align development practices with industrial compliance needs. Design, implement, and execute verification and validation activities required to qualify Ubuntu and other components for regulated environments. Develop and improve automation and tooling to scale traceability, testing, compliance evidence generation, and reporting. Engage with industrial partners to understand their expectations, align external expectations and internal capabilities, and support audits and technical reviews. Contribute to the continuous improvement of Canonical’s internal processes and standards capability as the team scales. What we are looking for in you Strong software engineering foundation with experience in developing complex systems on Linux. Professional experience with C, C++, and Python in production environments. Demonstrated experience working within automotive, industrial, or other regulated environments governed by safety, cybersecurity, or quality standards (such as ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434, IEC 61508, IEC 62443, SOTIF, or (A)SPICE), and applying them in practice. Experience in system or software architecture, implementation, or verification and validation of complex embedded systems. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce precise technical documentation. Ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed team and engage with industrial partners. Additional experience that is valuable Contributions to open source projects, particularly in the area of Software Defined Vehicles. Knowledge of Debian packaging. Experience with Rust or safety-critical software development. What we offer colleagues We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year Annual compensation review Recognition rewards Annual holiday leave Maternity and paternity leave Team Member Assistance Program &amp; Wellness Platform Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal-opportunity employer We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.&nbsp;Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

Software Engineer, Automotive and Industrial Architecture

<p>We are hiring for the <strong>Head of Financial Planning &amp; Analysis</strong>, to lead the global FP&amp;A Teams and be a leader within the wider finance team. You will play a key part leading our monthly business reviews and forecasting, annual planning, and continuously drive cross-functional business alignment, as well as develop the long term roadmap for the FP&amp;A team. Our ideal candidate is a highly analytical independent thinker, who has a proven record of leading a team to use data analysis to advise on critical financial, commercial and strategic decisions.</p>
<p>Our business opportunity is significant; we can deliver both infrastructure and business applications to the enterprise market. As companies refresh their data centers, our goal is to be the platform for cloud and apps. As they re-architect their business applications to embrace open source, our goal is to deliver the majority of their databases, analytics, messaging, publishing, identity, security, workflow... everything that is open source. We are committed to do that at the most efficient price points possible to drive down the total cost of IT, but this is nevertheless a significant global market, and our ambition is to be counted among the most valued software suppliers to the Global 10,000.</p>
<p><strong>Location:</strong> This is a remote role in AMER or EMEA time zones, with the option to be based in our London office.</p>
<h3>The role entails</h3>
<ul>
<li>Develop executive reporting dashboards and documents including Board reporting, monthly financial results and other management presentations</li>
<li>Analyse &amp; Report monthly results, leading indicators and KPIs to support monthly forecasting and annual plan attainment</li>
<li>Provide commercial analysis, develop growth targets, and evaluate strategic initiatives</li>
<li>Work with product managers to produce, aggregate, and distribute both market insights and competitive intelligence</li>
<li>Manage financial models, including budgeting, forecasting, and long range planning</li>
<li>Drive improvements in data analysis, and determine the appropriate processes, methodologies, and modeling techniques to deliver insights.</li>
<li>Partner with Accounting and Investor Relations to support month end close, flux review processes, and financial reporting</li>
<li>Drive multi-functional change projects designed to enhance systems, processes, and data accuracy</li>
<li>Play a key role in preparation of critical public financial documents to support an IPO process, including supporting the production of investor materials and public filings</li>
<li>Guide the annual FP&amp;A activity calendar to provide decision support to the executive team</li>
<li>Mentor colleagues within the FP&amp;A team, as well as peer teams</li>
<li>Control costs via methodical reviews of department spend, procurement strategies, and business wide process efficiency</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>What we are looking for in you</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>An exceptional academic track record</li>
<li>Experience and a deeply rooted passion to lead successful team members, and aid in their career growth&nbsp;</li>
<li>Have operated in a high growth, multi currency/geography technology business with a mixed go-to-market motion</li>
<li>Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities</li>
<li>Highest ethical standards, integrity, authenticity, credibility, and character</li>
<li>Curiosity and willingness to work on a wide range of projects</li>
<li>Proficiency in spreadsheets, financial modeling, and BI tools</li>
<li>Understanding of core accounting principles&nbsp;</li>
<li>Professional written and spoken English&nbsp;</li>
<li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability&nbsp;</li>
<li>Passionate, thoughtful, and self-motivated</li>
<li>Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet and exceed commitments&nbsp;</li>
<li>International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long</li>
</ul>
<h3>Nice-to-have skills</h3>
<ul>
<li>MBA or equivalent combination of professional certifications and experience</li>
<li>Previous experience as a subject matter expert in Financial Planning &amp; Analysis</li>
<li>Experience with Business Intelligence reporting, CRM and ERP systems</li>
</ul>
<h3>What we offer colleagues</h3>
<p>We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We assess performance and revisit compensation twice annually to ensure we recognize outstanding colleagues. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li>
<li>Bi-annual compensation review</li>
<li>Company recognition rewards</li>
<li>40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave</li>
<li>Team Member Assistance Program &amp; Wellness Platform</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access</li>
</ul>
<h3>About Canonical</h3>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p>
<p>Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<h3>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</h3>
<p>We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. <a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity">Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.</a></p>

Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

<p>Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, “the world’s best free software platform”. The Commercial Engineering Quality Assurance (QA) team works with all the engineering teams in Canonical, OEM and ODM customers, to bring Ubuntu directly to millions of users by delivering certified Ubuntu laptop, desktop, IoT and other computing devices.</p>
<p>As a Software QA engineer, you will join the team responsible for our strategy for quality coordination and testing. You will be a quality expert with extensive experience establishing quality processes from the ground up. You will understand the tools and techniques used to introduce new products, and will work with teams across the company to drive quality improvements through the entire development cycle.</p>
<p>Location: This is an office-based role in Beijing.</p>
<p><strong>As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer you will:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Plan, create and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy and document</li>
<li>Improve our automated test capability with design and code contributions</li>
<li>Perform automated and manual testing of Ubuntu Desktop, Server and Core on varies latest hardware.</li>
<li>Suggest solutions to identified product problems</li>
<li>Collaborate with the Project team to ensure consistent project execution</li>
<li>Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest improvements</li>
<li>Oversee continuous improvement projects&nbsp;</li>
<li>Collect quality data</li>
<li>Establish proactive measures to improve the quality and reliability of the Ubuntu platform</li>
<li>Prepare time estimates and schedule for testing activities</li>
<li>Identify, isolate, and document bugs clearly and concisely in the bugs database</li>
<li>Work with development teams across multiple projects to build efficient, effective automated testing</li>
<li>Communicate effectively with colleagues in a variety of time zones around the world</li>
<li>Triage test reports and customer bugs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>The successful Software Quality Assurance Engineer will have :</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience with the Linux desktop, and related technologies. Ubuntu experience would be a plus</li>
<li>Solid grasp of commercial Software QA practices and ideas on how to integrate them into Linux Community standards</li>
<li>Experience with common scripting languages, including Shell script, Python or JavaScript</li>
<li>Comfortable with online communication and collaboration such as mailing lists, Mattermost, wiki</li>
<li>Excellent logic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills</li>
<li>Strong written and spoken communication skills in English</li>
<li>Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team</li>
<li>Ability to pick up new technologies and achieve high effectiveness quickly</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What Canonical Offers:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Learning and development</li>
<li>Annual compensation review</li>
<li>Recognition rewards</li>
<li>Annual leave</li>
<li>Priority Pass for travel</li>
<li>Annual health check</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>About Canonical</strong></p>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p>
<p>Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<p><em>Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world class software and services which meet the world’s computing needs. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.</em></p>
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Software Quality Assurance Engineer - Linux, PC, IoT

<p>We are hiring a&nbsp;<strong>General Counsel</strong>, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO). This role leads Canonical’s global Legal and Compliance function.</p>
<p>This is a unique opportunity for an <strong>exceptional and commercially-minded senior lawyer</strong> to lead the legal and compliance function of a profitable, fast-growing technology company that is privately held with the intention to list on a public exchange. We’re looking for someone with genuine fluency in the software industry and in open source dynamics, who can translate that insight into clear positions on licensing, commercial contracts and risk, and hands-on execution.</p>
<p>Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, you will <strong>own Canonical's legal, regulatory and governance posture</strong> and lead a distributed team across EMEA and the Americas. Your primary challenge will be to continue building both the team and the architecture: a management layer across two regions, and the governance, contracting and controls a public company needs, in an environment that regularly does things the industry has not done before. You will work closely with our product and engineering teams on licensing and IP questions, with the security function on customer assurance, and you will advise the Board and its committees directly.</p>
<p>In our selection process, we <strong>prioritize intellect and judgement</strong> alongside depth of practice. We are looking for someone with a strong academic background, an active licence to practice, and demonstrable exposure to a multilayered global operational environment.</p>
<p><strong><em>Location: </em></strong><em>This role will be based remotely in EMEA time zones.</em></p>
<h3><strong>The role entails</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Leading the global Legal and Compliance function: setting it's structure, standards and priorities across EMEA and the Americas.</li>
<li>Building and managing a management capability: hire and develop managers, set objectives, review performance against a clear bar, and address under-performance directly.</li>
<li>Setting the operating cadence of the function: intake and prioritization of legal work, service expectations with internal clients, and reporting on workload and risk to the leadership team.</li>
<li>Owning public-market readiness on the legal side: corporate governance, group and entity structure, delegated authority, policies, disclosure controls and records, in partnership with Finance.</li>
<li>Advising the CEO, COO, CFO and the Board, and supporting in Board and committee meetings.</li>
<li>Owning the commercial contracting framework: standard templates, negotiating positions, and a deviation and escalation process that makes commitments visible before they are signed.</li>
<li>Leading intellectual property and open source licensing strategy, including copyleft, trademark and the terms on which Ubuntu and our products are distributed.</li>
<li>Owning the global compliance programme: data protection and privacy, export controls and trade compliance, anti-bribery and corruption, competition and AI regulation.</li>
<li>Managing litigation, disputes and regulatory engagement, together with the external counsel panel, its budget and its quality.</li>
<li>Advising on M&amp;A, partnerships, strategic alliances and financing as the company grows.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>What we are looking for in you</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.</li>
<li>A degree in law, or equivalent, and an active licence to practice in an EMEA or Americas jurisdiction.</li>
<li>Substantial senior in-house experience in a global technology or software business.</li>
<li>Proven experience leading a distributed legal team, including managing managers across regions and time zones.</li>
<li>A track record of setting and holding a high performance bar: hiring well, developing people, and dealing with under performance directly rather than waiting it out.</li>
<li>Experience building or restructuring an in-house legal function, including deciding what is retained, delegated and sent to external counsel.</li>
<li>Technology related experience of:
<ul>
<li>negotiating and owning commercial technology contracts, including enterprise software and subscriptions, channel and reseller agreements, hardware manufacturer agreements, cloud and services</li>
<li>advising on open source licensing, including permissive and copyleft licences, and familiarity with how open source communities operate.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Experience of, or demonstrable readiness for, public company governance: listing preparation, board and committee support, disclosure and controls.</li>
<li>Depth in at least two of: data protection and privacy, IP and trademark, export controls and trade, competition, or disputes.</li>
<li>Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, hold colleagues accountable, and share ideas without hesitation.</li>
<li>Professional written and spoken English with excellent drafting and presentation skills.</li>
<li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.</li>
<li>International travel two to four times a year for company events up to two weeks long.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Nice-to-have skills</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Experience taking a company through an IPO, or practicing as counsel inside a listed company.</li>
<li>A technical or engineering background, or fluency in how software is built and shipped.</li>
<li>Experience of a subscription or recurring-revenue business model.</li>
<li>Experience building or restructuring an in-house legal function.</li>
<li>A qualification in more than one jurisdiction.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>What we offer colleagues</strong></h3>
<p>We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.</li>
<li>Bi-annual compensation review.</li>
<li>Company recognition rewards.</li>
<li>40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods.</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave.</li>
<li>Team Member Assistance Program &amp; Wellness Platform.</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>About Canonical</strong></h3>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p>
<p>Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<p><strong>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</strong></p>
<p>We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.<a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity"> Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.</a></p>

General Counsel (remote)

<p>Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, as well as industry leaders across many sectors.</p>
<p>Canonical is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1,200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.</p>
<p>The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p>
<p>We are hiring an<strong> Engineering Manager for Distributed Systems Testing </strong>to lead a team responsible for the quality engineering platform that enables deployment and validation of distributed systems across Canonical's cloud portfolio.</p>
<p>We see quality engineering as a first-class engineering practice. Our Distributed Systems Testing team ensures the performance, correctness, resilience and interoperability of Canonical cloud solutions built with technologies such as Juju, Terraform, OpenStack and Kubernetes. These systems are deployed and tested across diverse environments, from bare-metal to the public cloud.</p>
<p>As Engineering Manager, you will combine strong software engineering judgement with people leadership. You will develop engineering talent, establish effective engineering practices, shape technical direction with senior engineers, and ensure the team delivers high-quality testing infrastructure and automation that enables engineering teams across Canonical to ship software with confidence.</p>
<p>We believe engineering managers should be outstanding engineers themselves. You should be comfortable reviewing patches, evaluating software design, debugging a distributed system, or discussing test architecture. You will contribute technically where appropriate to set a high standard, while recognizing that your greatest impact comes from shaping the direction, focus, effectiveness, and growth of the whole team.</p>
<p>You will work closely with senior engineers and engineering leaders across Canonical to define priorities, improve testing capabilities, and advance how we validate increasingly complex cloud-native and distributed systems.</p>
<p><strong>Location: </strong>This is a globally remote role, typically leading a team concentrated within a major time zone such as EMEA or the Americas.</p>
<h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of software and quality engineers, ranging from graduate to senior level</li>
<li>Set clear expectations, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure timely delivery against agreed goals</li>
<li>Partner with senior engineers to shape technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards</li>
<li>Guide the development of automated testing infrastructure for the reliability, interoperability, and resilience of distributed systems</li>
<li>Improve CI pipelines, testing tools, and reporting used to validate Canonical's products and solutions across bare-metal, private and public cloud environments</li>
<li>Enable engineering teams across Canonical to adopt effective distributed-systems testing practices and tooling</li>
<li>Contribute technical leadership through design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on engineering where appropriate</li>
<li>Represent the team with stakeholders and collaborate across Canonical on quality engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>What we're looking for in you</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university</li>
<li>Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers</li>
<li>Professional software engineering experience with Python or Go</li>
<li>Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, or a closely related domain</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of modern software testing processes, strategies, and automation</li>
<li>Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)&nbsp;</li>
<li>Strong technical judgement and the ability to engage meaningfully in code reviews, architecture discussions, and software design</li>
<li>Experience working in an agile development environment with the ability to organize a team to deliver high-quality results</li>
<li>Professional written and spoken English with excellent communication and presentation skills&nbsp;</li>
<li>Great interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability, demonstrating passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation</li>
<li>Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Additional skills we value</strong></h2>
<p>Experience with any of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Juju, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure</li>
<li>Designing testing strategies for distributed or cloud-native systems</li>
<li>Building or operating large-scale CI/CD and test infrastructure</li>
<li>Applying AI or machine learning to test analysis, failure classification, or engineering workflows</li>
<li>Deploying, operating, or debugging distributed systems</li>
<li>Leading globally distributed teams</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>What we offer colleagues</strong></h2>
<p>We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually, and more often for graduates and associates, to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.</p>
<p>We provide all team members with additional benefits that reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programmes to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year</li>
<li>Annual compensation review</li>
<li>Recognition rewards</li>
<li>Annual holiday leave</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme and wellness support</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues</li>
<li>Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>About Canonical</strong></h2>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and a leading platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.</p>
<p>We recruit globally and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<h3><strong>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 300;">We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. </span><a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.</span></a></p>
<p>Requisition ID: 1361</p>

Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems, Python / Go

<p>We are hiring a&nbsp;<strong>General Counsel</strong>, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO). This role leads Canonical’s global Legal and Compliance function.</p>
<p>This is a unique opportunity for an <strong>exceptional and commercially-minded senior lawyer</strong> to lead the legal and compliance function of a profitable, fast-growing technology company that is privately held with the intention to list on a public exchange. We’re looking for someone with genuine fluency in the software industry and in open source dynamics, who can translate that insight into clear positions on licensing, commercial contracts and risk, and hands-on execution.</p>
<p>Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, you will <strong>own Canonical's legal, regulatory and governance posture</strong> and lead a distributed team across EMEA and the Americas. Your primary challenge will be to continue building both the team and the architecture: a management layer across two regions, and the governance, contracting and controls a public company needs, in an environment that regularly does things the industry has not done before. You will work closely with our product and engineering teams on licensing and IP questions, with the security function on customer assurance, and you will advise the Board and its committees directly.</p>
<p>In our selection process, we <strong>prioritize intellect and judgement</strong> alongside depth of practice. We are looking for someone with a strong academic background, an active licence to practice, and demonstrable exposure to a multilayered global operational environment.</p>
<p><strong><em>Location: </em></strong><em>This role will be based remotely in EMEA time zones, with an option to be office based in London, UK.</em></p>
<h3><strong>The role entails</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Leading the global Legal and Compliance function: setting it's structure, standards and priorities across EMEA and the Americas.</li>
<li>Building and managing a management capability: hire and develop managers, set objectives, review performance against a clear bar, and address under-performance directly.</li>
<li>Setting the operating cadence of the function: intake and prioritization of legal work, service expectations with internal clients, and reporting on workload and risk to the leadership team.</li>
<li>Owning public-market readiness on the legal side: corporate governance, group and entity structure, delegated authority, policies, disclosure controls and records, in partnership with Finance.</li>
<li>Advising the CEO, COO, CFO and the Board, and supporting in Board and committee meetings.</li>
<li>Owning the commercial contracting framework: standard templates, negotiating positions, and a deviation and escalation process that makes commitments visible before they are signed.</li>
<li>Leading intellectual property and open source licensing strategy, including copyleft, trademark and the terms on which Ubuntu and our products are distributed.</li>
<li>Owning the global compliance programme: data protection and privacy, export controls and trade compliance, anti-bribery and corruption, competition and AI regulation.</li>
<li>Managing litigation, disputes and regulatory engagement, together with the external counsel panel, its budget and its quality.</li>
<li>Advising on M&amp;A, partnerships, strategic alliances and financing as the company grows.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>What we are looking for in you</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.</li>
<li>A degree in law, or equivalent, and an active licence to practice in an EMEA or Americas jurisdiction.</li>
<li>Substantial senior in-house experience in a global technology or software business.</li>
<li>Proven experience leading a distributed legal team, including managing managers across regions and time zones.</li>
<li>A track record of setting and holding a high performance bar: hiring well, developing people, and dealing with under performance directly rather than waiting it out.</li>
<li>Experience building or restructuring an in-house legal function, including deciding what is retained, delegated and sent to external counsel.</li>
<li>Technology related experience of:
<ul>
<li>negotiating and owning commercial technology contracts, including enterprise software and subscriptions, channel and reseller agreements, hardware manufacturer agreements, cloud and services</li>
<li>advising on open source licensing, including permissive and copyleft licences, and familiarity with how open source communities operate.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Experience of, or demonstrable readiness for, public company governance: listing preparation, board and committee support, disclosure and controls.</li>
<li>Depth in at least two of: data protection and privacy, IP and trademark, export controls and trade, competition, or disputes.</li>
<li>Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, hold colleagues accountable, and share ideas without hesitation.</li>
<li>Professional written and spoken English with excellent drafting and presentation skills.</li>
<li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.</li>
<li>International travel two to four times a year for company events up to two weeks long.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Nice-to-have skills</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Experience taking a company through an IPO, or practicing as counsel inside a listed company.</li>
<li>A technical or engineering background, or fluency in how software is built and shipped.</li>
<li>Experience of a subscription or recurring-revenue business model.</li>
<li>Experience building or restructuring an in-house legal function.</li>
<li>A qualification in more than one jurisdiction.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>What we offer colleagues</strong></h3>
<p>We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.</li>
<li>Bi-annual compensation review.</li>
<li>Company recognition rewards.</li>
<li>40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods.</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave.</li>
<li>Team Member Assistance Program &amp; Wellness Platform.</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>About Canonical</strong></h3>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p>
<p>Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<p><strong>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</strong></p>
<p>We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.<a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity"> Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.</a></p>

General Counsel

<p>Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.</p>
<p><strong>The company is founder led, profitable and growing.</strong></p>
<p>Product marketers at Canonical sit between product and the market. They take deeply technical open source products and decide what they mean to a user and a buyer; which problem they solve, who should care, why we win, and what it should cost. That work shows up as positioning and messaging, launch plans, competitive intelligence, global campaigns, and the enablement that helps sales tell a coherent story.</p>
<p>This is a role for someone who wants ownership rather than a brief. You will pick up a portfolio area, form your own point of view on the market, and defend it with evidence. We expect product marketers to talk to customers and community members directly, and to bring opinions to product and sales rather than waiting to be told what to say.</p>
<p>We have a bias for action, focus effort on the most impactful activities, and take ownership of our results. We work across long buying cycles, balance storytelling with data, design experiments, track outcomes, and iterate rapidly to find what works.</p>
<p>Location: This role is remote for anyone based in EMEA.</p>
<h2>The role entails</h2>
<p>You will own product marketing for one of our product areas, from the market thesis through to the assets that sales and campaigns run on. You will be accountable for whether the story lands, whether launches convert, and whether the sales team can repeat the message without you in the room.</p>
<p>You will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Own positioning, messaging, and the narrative hierarchy for your product area, and keep it consistent from the website through to the sales deck</li>
<li>Lead product launches end to end with tiering, timeline, cross-functional plan, assets, and post-launch reporting</li>
<li>Build and maintain the competitive picture for your area: who we lose to, why, and what we say about it</li>
<li>Support building the enablement that sales actually uses: battlecards, discovery questions, objection handling, demo narratives</li>
<li>Run structured customer and community research, including win-loss, to keep the messaging grounded in real language rather than internal assumptions</li>
<li>Partner with demand generation, content, web, and events to turn positioning into campaigns that move pipeline</li>
<li>Raise the standard of the craft around you through review, mentoring, and shared frameworks</li>
</ul>
<h2>What we are looking for in you</h2>
<ul>
<li>Strong written and verbal communication in English</li>
<li>An exceptional academic track record from high school and university</li>
<li>Proven product marketing experience in B2B software, SaaS, or open source</li>
<li>A track record of owning positioning and messaging for a product or portfolio, not just executing someone else's</li>
<li>Evidence of launches you led that changed a business outcome such as adoption, pipeline, or win rate</li>
<li>The technical curiosity to hold your own with product managers and engineers and to understand the product beyond the datasheet</li>
<li>Comfort using data to test a hypothesis, evaluate a campaign, and change your mind</li>
<li>Ability to influence and align stakeholders across product, sales, and marketing without formal authority</li>
<li>Excellent storytelling skills applied to technical solutions, for both developer and executive audiences</li>
<li>Skill at managing complex, cross-functional projects with several dependencies and a fixed date</li>
<li>Fast adaptation to change and to new technology in marketing</li>
<li>Proactive, outcome-driven, and confident operating independently at a global scale</li>
</ul>
<h2>Nice-to-have skills</h2>
<ul>
<li>Experience marketing to developers, or in infrastructure, security, or IoT categories</li>
<li>Familiarity with open source communities and commercial open source business models</li>
<li>Experience across both product-led and sales-led motions, and with the handover between them</li>
<li>Public speaking, webinars, or conference presence in a technical field</li>
<li>Experience mentoring or leading other product marketers</li>
</ul>
<h2>What we offer you</h2>
<p>Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilization. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. &nbsp;<br>In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, please ask your Talent Partner.</p>
<p>🏠Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!</p>
<p>📚Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum</p>
<p>💰Annual compensation review</p>
<p>🏆Recognition rewards</p>
<p>🏝 Annual holiday leave</p>
<p>👶Parental Leave</p>
<p>🧑‍💼Employee Assistance Programme</p>
<p>🧳Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’</p>
<h2><strong>About Canonical</strong></h2>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<h2><strong>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</strong></h2>
<p>We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. <a href="https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity">Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.</a></p>
<p>#LI-remote&nbsp;</p>

Product Marketing Lead

<p>We are hiring an&nbsp;<strong>Internal Auditor,</strong> reporting to the CFO. This role covers multiple Canonical corporate entities in several countries.</p>
<p>This is a unique opportunity for an <strong>astute and forward-thinking professional</strong> to build the audit function from the ground up at a profitable, fast-growing technology company. We're looking for someone with a keen interest in technology and how technology is changing the tax profession, who can translate that insight into a modern, effective strategy and hands-on execution.</p>
<p>Reporting directly to the CFO, you will <strong>design and own internal audit processes</strong> that support our global expansion. Your primary challenge will be navigating the complexity of our internal environment, where scale, controls, and automation are priority. You will work with the CFO to establish a scalable and efficient framework fit for a dynamic, global software business. You will also report the status of internal audit to the Audit committee.</p>
<p>In our selection process, we <strong>prioritize intellect and strategic thinking</strong> over years of experience. We are looking for someone with a strong academic background, a professional qualification and demonstrable exposure to a multilayered global operational environment.</p>
<p><strong>Location: </strong><em>This role will be based remotely in AMER or EMEA time zones, with an option to office based in London, UK.</em></p>
<h3><strong>The role entails</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Establish, develop and maintain the infrastructure for internal audit: templates, risk registers and reporting cadences.</li>
<li>Conduct the end-to-end internal audit cycle. This includes planning, performing walkthroughs, testing controls, and documenting every step with precision.</li>
<li>Evaluate global policies and processes to identify gaps and work with process owners to implement scalable improvements.</li>
<li>Partner with operational stakeholders to identify areas of elevated risk, execute internal audits, and drive corrective actions.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Deliver actionable insights on risk and controls effectiveness to senior leadership.</li>
<li>Collaborate with stakeholders on new initiatives to ensure risk mitigation is planned appropriately.</li>
<li>Develop risk-based internal audit programs, as well as monitor remediation of identified issues to closure.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>What we are looking for in you</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.</li>
<li>Undergraduate degree in business, finance, economics, technology or other quantitative field.</li>
<li>Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).</li>
<li>Prior experience in an internal audit function.</li>
<li>Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, hold colleagues accountable, and share ideas without hesitation.</li>
<li>Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results.</li>
<li>The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues.</li>
<li>Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills.</li>
<li>Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.</li>
<li>Thoughtfulness and self-motivation.</li>
<li>Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.</li>
<li>International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Nice-to-have skills</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Leadership ability.</li>
<li>Software or tech industry experience.</li>
<li>Public company finance and reporting experience.</li>
</ul>
<h3>What we offer colleagues</h3>
<p>We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We assess performance and revisit compensation twice annually to ensure we recognize outstanding colleagues. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.</p>
<ul>
<li>Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.</li>
<li>Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.</li>
<li>Bi-annual compensation review.</li>
<li>Company recognition rewards.</li>
<li>40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods.</li>
<li>Maternity and paternity leave.</li>
<li>Team Member Assistance Program &amp; Wellness Platform.</li>
<li>Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access.</li>
</ul>
<h3>About Canonical</h3>
<p>Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder-led, profitable, and growing.</p>
<p>Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.</p>
<h3>Canonical is an equal opportunity employer</h3>
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