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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 - Americas; Home Based - Asia-Pacific; 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 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. Canonical’s Partner Engineering Team is looking for open-source enthusiasts to work across the full Linux stack to ensure new silicon technologies, such as new hardware accelerators, AI stacks, confidential computing, networking, virtualization, and containerization stacks, are optimized for new silicons. Partner Engineering works closely with worldwide silicon companies to optimize Ubuntu for their new silicon, from x86, ARM, RISC-V, PowerPC and s390x architectures. Location: This is a Globally remote role The role entails • Collaborating proactively within a distributed team • Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users • Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards. • Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere • Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers • Debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code. • Helping our our customers to integrate their apps, SDKs, build OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server • Working with a team to maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across platforms and technologies such as: • Servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs and automotive systems • AI stacks • Graphics, audio and multimedia stacks • Virtualisation and Containers • Hardware enablement stacks • New architectures, architecture variants and optimized toolchains • Package management and dependencies • Platform security (secure boot, FDE, Ubuntu Core, Confidential Computing) • Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal events </u Job description: Home Based - Americas; Home Based - APAC; Home based - EMEA
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The source lists Africa eligible · wider Europe, Middle East and Africa region as the eligible location. Confirm that you meet any work-authorization, time-zone and experience requirements.
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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- Employer or source
- Canonical
- Source checked
- September 8, 2026
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Home Based - Americas; Home Based - Asia-Pacific; 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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