Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA Remote (Global) Employment

Canonical is hiring a Software Engineering Manager - Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Manage and guide a team of remote software engineers
  • Foster professional growth through coaching, mentoring, and career development support
  • Align engineering goals with cross-functional teams, leadership, and external partners
  • Promote and implement modern software engineering methodologies
  • Contribute to engineering quality via code and architecture reviews
  • Collaborate with internal teams, open source contributors, and external partners
  • Work remotely with 4 to 6 weeks of annual travel for company and community events

Benefits

  • Distributed work model with biannual in-person team sprints
  • USD 2,000 annual learning and development allowance
  • Regular performance-based compensation assessments
  • Recognition programs for outstanding contributions
  • Generous annual leave entitlement
  • Parental leave for maternity and paternity
  • Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunities to travel and connect with colleagues globally
  • Priority Pass membership and travel upgrades for long-distance company events

Compensation

Annual compensation review

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide) — EMEA, Americas

Team

Engineers work remotely across the globe, collaborating in a highly autonomous, open-source-driven environment.

About Canonical

A leading technology company driving the global shift to open source, known for publishing Ubuntu — a foundational platform for AI, IoT, and cloud computing. The company hires globally with a high bar for talent, emphasizing excellence, innovation, and remote-first culture since 2004. It promotes a diverse, inclusive workplace and challenges employees to continuously improve and think critically. Equal opportunity principles are central to its hiring and culture.

Other

  • Work from home with 4 to 6 weeks of global travel annually for internal and external events
  • Distributed work environment featuring in-person team sprints twice a year
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
  • Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

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Canonical
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud.
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