Canonical

Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer

Worldwide / Remote

Senior / Staff / Principal

REMOTE

Canonical is hiring Senior, Staff, and Principal Engineers across all engineering teams. This is a general track role where candidates are matched to the best-fit team after an initial interview round. Engineers at this level are expected to lead architecture and design of impactful open source projects, write high-quality code in languages such as Go, Rust, Python, or C/C++, mentor colleagues, and take joint ownership of outcomes alongside engineering leadership. Canonical works fully remotely with team gatherings twice a year. The company builds and maintains Ubuntu and a broad portfolio...

Go

Rust

Python

C

C++

TypeScript

React

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Open source development

Technical documentation

Mentoring

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