Software Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and IoT. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company. Your role will be to help us provide easy to deploy, secure, and customizable industrial edge solutions. You will work on designing and implementing applications that run on constrained IoT devices to powerful gateways. Embedded systems and Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges. In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required. What you’ll do Collaborate proactively with a distributed team Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade IoT solutions Secure deployment of IoT platforms on Linux Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events Who you are Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++. You have experience working with RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging protocols You have interest and experience with a few of the following: Containers (docker, kubernetes) Linux distributions Snap, debian, or RPM packaging Shell scripting CI/CD (Github Actions, Gitlab CI, etc) IoT frameworks and protocols Real-time applications AI/ML inference frameworks Hardware accelerators: GPU, NPU You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.