Junior Ubuntu Software Engineer

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 junior engineers to work across the breadth of our Ubuntu Engineering organisation - engineers who care deeply for quality, performance and resilience in software, engineers who are just as comfortable designing and engineering new software as they are packaging, integrating, testing and shipping the incredible catalog of open source software provided by the Ubuntu repositories

Our engineers integrate the freshest open source software, provide robust upgrade paths and engineer the future of Ubuntu

Ubuntu is not just the world’s most deployed open source operating system, it's a platform that enables innovation for millions of users across the globe

Our community represents the full breadth of the developer experience; from students, hobbyists and freelancers to high performance engineering and creative teams in corporate and academic environments

The four key teams that ship Ubuntu are Foundations : maintaining foundational software: architectures, package managers, compilers, toolchains, bootloaders, filesystems and core utilities Server: leading the design, evolution and future of our Ubuntu Server distribution Desktop: driving Ubuntu Desktop, our future immutable desktop: Ubuntu Core Desktop, WSL, gaming technology, and a suite of modern applications for the desktop crafted with Flutter Debcrafters: a new team responsible for the forward movement, maintenance and overall health of the Ubuntu archive: one of the most abundant repositories of open source software available today Bring your existing expertise and learn new skills by working on one of the most prolific pieces of open source software