Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Canonical as a Staff Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and evolution of high-impact open source projects, collaborate with a globally distributed team, mentor colleagues, and contribute to technical documentation.

Requirements

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
• Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
• Deep experience with at least one of Go, Rust, Python or C
• Subject matter expertise in your engineering domain
• Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of an impactful open source project
• Code in Golang, Rust, Python, C/C++ or Typescript / React
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Mentor, develop and advise colleagues in their career progression
• Display technical leadership in Canonical and our communities
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Contribute to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events