Security Engineer

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 is building a team dedicated to providing security coverage across a wide range of ecosystems and environments, working to make the world a better, safer place. We are hiring an Ubuntu Security Engineer to join an industry-leading security engineering team and help protect the open source community and Ubuntu users from emerging threats. We are looking for candidates across all levels of experience, from Graduate to Senior. As part of the Ubuntu Security Team, you will work with some of the best and brightest people in technology to monitor, triage, respond to, and document new and existing vulnerabilities in open source software. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to identify issues, prioritize them, and coordinate remediation. This is an engineering-focused role that may also involve activities such as producing security assessments, building features, conducting code reviews, developing internal tools, engaging with the open source community, and participating in industry initiatives and events. This role requires international travel at least twice a year, usually for one week. It also requires the ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation. Location: Worldwide, this is a globally remote role. The role entails analyzing, fixing, and testing vulnerabilities in open source packages, keeping track of vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu ecosystem, collaborating with other teams, auditing source code, and building security features and tools. You should have a thorough understanding of security vulnerabilities, open source development tools, and programming skills in C, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby, PHP, or JavaScript/TypeScript. Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) is required. We offer a distributed work environment, a personal learning budget of USD 2,000 per year, annual salary reviews, recognition rewards, holiday leave, parental leave, wellness programs, and travel opportunities. Canonical is committed to diversity and equal opportunity employment.