Community Engineer

Summary

Join Canonical as a Community Engineer to support community initiatives with technical skills and strong organizational skills, engaging with volunteer developers in the Ubuntu community, and representing community interests to Canonical teams.

Requirements

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have experience with developer tools and open source projects
• You have a clear public record of accomplishments (talks, blog posts, GitHub, Twitter, etc)
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, container technology
• You can work autonomously and assume full ownership of objectives as needed
• You can be flexible with your time and enjoy working with new technology in a fast-paced environment
• You are experienced working with open source communities and understand the workflow of volunteer contributors

Responsibilities

• Support community initiatives with your technical skills and strong organizational skills
• Get into the trenches with developers to smooth processes and integrate community plans with Canonical plans for maximum impact
• Encourage and facilitate the creation of new technical projects that enhance the community contribution experience, and represent community interests to Canonical teams
• Support and engage with volunteer developers in the Ubuntu community, addressing their concerns and helping them to create successful tools
• Help to ensure their success and the overall autonomy and sustainability of the project
• Provide content and technical support to ensure the community stays engaged and informed, including regular blog and social media posts about community initiatives, events, accomplishments, and collaborative efforts between Canonical and the Ubuntu community
• Communicate effectively with developers and software engineers and represent not only the Ubuntu community but Canonical as a contributor to the wider Linux ecosystem

Benefits

• Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme