Canonical

Performance Engineer - Open Source

Global / Remote

Mid-Level / Senior

REMOTE

Canonical is hiring Performance Engineers to join engineering teams across its open source product portfolio, including Ubuntu and related infrastructure. In this role you will drive software performance, correctness, and efficiency across the full software stack — from the Linux kernel to web applications. You will collaborate globally with engineering teams, build shared measurement and benchmarking tooling, strengthen test harnesses, and mentor colleagues in performance culture. Canonical operates as a fully distributed company with team sprints held in person twice a year. The role is o...

Performance engineering

Software correctness

Linux

Benchmarking

Profiling

Test harness development

Code review

Systems analysis

Performance measurement tooling

eBPF

Flamegraphs

C++

Rust

Golang

Python

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