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What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Canonical. It is listed as Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
The work location is Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this role
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for 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 an Engineering Director , who strives for taking ownership of the development and operations of internal business systems integrations, a full data mesh solution built on top of leading open-source software, and the configuration of Salesforce, NetSuite, and other internal business systems. A successful candidate has a track record of leading the configuration, development and integrations of business systems, such as Salesforce or NetSuite, and data engineering/governance solutions. Such a candidate adheres to high engineering quality standards, and continuously develops their skills as well as skills of their direct reports. This is an exciting opportunity to work with highly enthusiastic people on exciting innovative engineering solutions supporting Canonical's growth and learn a lot about engineering for the business. The engineering director will lead the Business Data unit that is conceived as three engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and data analytics and reporting. We are looking for a software engineering director to oversee the three software teams led by software engineering managers. The Business Systems team is responsible for systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, and several others. The engineers work closely with operations teams, implement business processes, and keep the systems compliant, while delivering first class experience to Canonical employees using those systems to get their job done. The Data Lake team is res Job description: Home based - EMEA
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About the employer
Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and develops open-source technology used across cloud, enterprise, IoT and AI environments.
This opportunity was checked against a direct Canonical careers listing.
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How this listing was checked
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- Canonical
- Source checked
- September 8, 2026
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Who can apply
- Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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