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, 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. This is an opportunity to shape the future of cloud networking user experience at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. We're looking for an exceptional Staff Design Engineer who can make complex networking infrastructure intuitive, powerful, and delightful for developers and operations teams working in cloud environments. As a Staff Design Engineer, you'll define the UX vision for how users interact with networking across our cloud portfolio—from MAAS to MicroCloud and Ubuntu Server networking. You'll work on challenges like visualizing network topologies, designing intuitive configuration interfaces, and creating experiences that make infrastructure manageable at scale. This role sits in the design team reporting to the Infrastructure design manager and is expected to have a company-wide impact. Location This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. The role entails Defining and driving the UX strategy for cloud networking products across Canonical's portfolio Designing intuitive interfaces for highly complex networking concepts that rethink VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, load balancers, and network observability Creating and evolving design systems and patterns that scale across multiple products and platforms Conducting user research with DevOps engineers, network administrators, SREs, and cloud architects to understand their workflows, pain points, and mental models Building prototypes and high-fidelity designs using Figma or similar tools Creating experiences for network troubleshooting, monitoring, and observability Working on both GUI and terminal-based user experiences, understanding that our users span from UI to CLI preferences Mentoring designers and contribute to design culture across Canonical Owning one of our working groups to enable Canonical design's horizontal efforts What we are looking for in you Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university Bachelor's or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path 8+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or interaction design, with a strong portfolio of B2B/enterprise products Solid understanding of cloud computing and networking fundamentals, experience designing for developers and operations teams, and their workflows Strong information architecture skills and can organize complex systems into clear, navigable structures Experienced in user research methodologies and can translate findings into actionable design decisions Excellent communication skills and can articulate design rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences Self-motivated, organized, and comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first environment Knowledge and passion for the intersection of user experience, technology and design Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long What we offer you Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits below, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce. 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, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process. Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004! Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum Annual compensation review Recognition rewards Annual holiday leave Parental Leave Employee Assistance Programme Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints' Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is 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 on a daily basis. 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. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business. 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. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr
A leading technology firm is seeking a skilled business development professional for a remote role in the EMEA region. You will set strategic direction for major accounts and collaborate with teams to drive the adoption of open-source solutions. Candidates should possess over 7 years of relevant experience, strong leadership skills, and a background in software development or product management. A bachelor's degree in science, technology, or engineering is required. Offers include a distributed work environment and personal development budget. #J-18808-Ljbffr
A leading open source software provider is seeking an exceptional Staff Design Engineer to shape the future of cloud networking user experience. This role entails driving the UX strategy for networking products and creating intuitive designs for complex concepts. Applicants should possess extensive experience in UX design and have a strong academic background. This opportunity is fully remote, allowing for flexibility while collaborating globally with teams. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Overview The Software Alliances team at Canonical works with leading software companies to optimize and enable their products with Ubuntu and other Canonical software, for instance our AI offerings. We develop joint product roadmaps, drive delivery, and formulate go-to-market plans, content and processes, enabling differentiated offerings and robust product life-cycle support anchored to best-in-class Canonical products. Enterprises are able to receive the benefits of open source, securely maintained, and validated solutions from cloud to edge, whether purchased from Canonical, embedded in Alliance partners' products, or accessed through the cloud. The successful candidate is someone who has demonstrated success in business development or product management, both as a leader and an individual contributor in major accounts. If you are someone who is passionate about open source, can navigate complex new technical challenges, learn quickly, and architect solutions and strategies across global teams, this challenging role is for you. This role is ideal for professionals with 7+ years of experience. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. Responsibilities Setting the account strategy in a major account, region, and/or vertical. Collaborating with product, engineering, alliance and marketing teams at partners to align on open-source strategies. Capturing partner requirements, evaluating gaps, and identifying Canonical opportunities. Coordinating with marketing and product teams on messaging, content creation, and launch plans. Creating partner- and customer-facing materials like reference architectures, joint blueprints, webinars, presentations, videos, and white papers. Driving Ubuntu adoption within targeted alliance accounts, advocating its benefits to stakeholders and working with partners on enablement training for their development, delivery, support and commercial teams. Influencing alliance partners to build with Canonical technology. Up to 25% travel, including internationally, for internal conferences and to drive partnerships in person. What we are looking for in you Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and influence. Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path. Bachelor's degree in science, technology and/or engineering. Experience in software development and system architecture. Customer-facing experience in software engineering, product management, business development, technology strategy or similar functions. Excellent communication skills across all levels of stakeholders - individual contributors to the C-suite; ability to grasp complex material and synthesize key points. Ability to think and work at both strategic and tactical levels. Disciplined and self motivated for a remote-first workplace environment. Nice‑to‑have Skills And Experience Experience with open source software and open source business models. Product management or program management experience. Understanding of marketing and go-to-market strategy. Sector-specific experience in finance, telecommunications, automotive, or public sectors. Working knowledge of independent hardware and software vendor go-to-market motions. Post‑graduate degree in science, technology or engineering field. What we offer colleagues 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 & 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 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. 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. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr
A leading software provider in Dublin is seeking a Partner Sales Director to foster strategic relationships with global system integrators. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in alliance sales management and a deep understanding of OpenStack and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include negotiating contracts and leading executive engagements. This position requires up to 40% travel and offers a distributed work environment along with a personal learning budget, annual compensation review, and wellness programs. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace role at Canonical Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace 3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace role at Canonical 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. The role Our Workplace Engineering team are a highly performant group which specialises in web architecture and analytics specialists. Building new tools, dashboards and analytics that empower colleagues, managers and executives to make better decisions and deliver better work. What you will do: Design and deliver web-based systems and SAAS Provide new insights into the Canonical workplace experience Enable new processes and improve existing workflows Collaborate proactively with a distributed team Write high-quality code to create new features Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions Estimate work, set goals and meet them Write project specifications, and epics and understand the risks Understand completion criteria and push work to completion Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself Connect to many data sources and provide insightful visualisations Database design and architecture for connected systems Developing new and improved working practices for the company Providing tooling to support optimised processes Love what you do. Who you are To be successful in this team you must be an expert in two or more of the following: Backend web service programming in Python and Node.JS Solid understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Data analytics and statistical analysis Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, machine learning Data visualisation The ideal candidate will use their passion for experimentation and analytics to build tomorrow's tech organisation. This team will help us gain insights into the business and our talent pool, and use those insights to improve the experience of working at Canonical. As a Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, you need an analytical, data-driven mind and a passion to connect and make sense of interesting data from APIs. We focus heavily on the collection of metrics, optimising processes, and ways of working across Canonical. You need to demonstrate leadership, excellence, and consistency and will mentor others in the team. 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 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. 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A leading open-source software company is seeking an IHV Alliance Sales Director to lead strategic partnerships in the EMEA and APAC regions. This remote role involves building relationships with IHV partners, managing a team, and driving business growth. Candidates should have experience in alliance sales, a strong understanding of Linux and cloud technologies, and excellent communication skills. Enjoy a supportive work environment with benefits that promote personal and professional growth. #J-18808-Ljbffr
A leading open source software provider is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead remote engineers for their product, Multipass. This role requires technical leadership and a passion for developing colleagues. Candidates should have a Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent, expertise in C++, and a strong focus on delivering high-quality software. The position offers a distributed work environment with global travel opportunities and excellent personal development support. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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 more than 80 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 a Software Engineering Manager to lead Multipass, the workstation mini-cloud at your fingertips. Multipass is published for macOS, Windows, and also Linux. At its simplest you can say multipass launch and you will get a new VM on your workstation. The goal is not to be a full cloud, of course. The goal is to give developers a local cloud experience on their workstation, which they can use to run builds in the background, or to try cloud appliances, or to test their own cloud deployments and cloud-init scripts, free of charge. People sometimes use it as a build farm on a shared server, for example. As an engineering manager at Canonical you must have a solid technical background, but your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution. The successful candidate will have experience leading successful, collaborative engineering teams, and demonstrate the ability to solve challenging problems. Location This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas. Role entails Lead a team of remote engineers Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders Advocate and advance modern software development practices Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events What we are looking for in you You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills Expertise in modern C++ development Cross-platform development experience on macOS and/or Windows Knowledge of hypervisor technologies such as Hyper‑V, VirtualBox, and KVM Open source experience and involvement What we offer colleagues 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 Employee Assistance Programme 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. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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 seeking a highly motivated and experienced IHV Alliance Sales Director to join our strategic partnerships team who will be responsible for leading IHV Alliances in the EMEA or APAC regions. Reporting to the Head of IHV Alliances, the IHV Alliance Sales Director will work closely with IHV and Canonical teams in those geographies to develop and maintain strong relationships with senior executives at strategic partner organizations, fostering collaboration and alignment on joint business objectives. The IHV Alliance Sales Director will manage and grow a team of Business Development Managers and help them identify and pursue new business opportunities with IHVs, driving revenue growth and market expansion, develop and execute go‑to‑market strategies for joint offerings, oversee the day‑to‑day management of alliances including contract negotiations and performance tracking, and issue resolution. The Director is responsible for building trusted relationships with IHV partners, increasing Canonical market share and attach rate, evangelising the partnership and leading all business interactions from engineer to CxO. They will often run customer workshops focused on particular initiatives at that customer, attend sales events, give public presentations and lead executive engagements. Location: This role will be based remotely in EMEA or APAC regions. As an IHV Alliance Sales Director you will: Build strategic relationships with IHV partners at all levels Grow their awareness of open source capabilities on Canonical Ubuntu Demonstrate a deep understanding of the Linux and cloud software ecosystem Negotiate contracts and commercial business terms Demonstrate a deep understanding of large and complex organizations Lead partnerships in APAC with companies like Lenovo, Huawei, Quanta, Fujitsu, Inspur, H3C, NEC, Asus etc. Lead partnerships in EMEA with companies like Ericsson, Nokia, Bull, Siemens Lead partnerships in the Americas with companies like Dell, HPE, IBM, Supermicro Work closely with marketing, sales engineering and product management Deliver on targets, objectives and provide a voice of the partner Lead executive interlocks between IHV and Canonical leadership Travel regularly - sometimes internationally - to drive partnerships in person Valued skills and experience Experience in alliance or indirect sales management roles Autonomous, disciplined, hands‑on, get‑it‑done mentality Ability to capture customer requirements, evaluate gaps, identify and create opportunities Passionate about Ubuntu products and mission Comfortable in fast‑paced and high‑pressure environments with measurable goals Experience with Linux, virtualization, containers, and other cloud technologies. Excellent communication and presentation skills What we offer colleagues 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 & 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 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. 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. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr
