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We publish Ubuntu, the leanest and most efficient open source platform. We care about developer access to the very best of open source, and make it easy to innovate and publish on the cloud, on desktops, and on smart connected devices for the internet of things. We work across the full range of open source – from the kernel, to applications, from deep system services to the GUI and the web.
We care about security, correctness, reliability, performance and efficiency. If you share those values and you have a track record of exceptional software development, this is the place for you.
Engineering at Canonical
With the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world as long as you are an outstanding and reliable team member, Canonical offers engineering career paths that include technical mastery, leadership, or management. We don’t prescribe your journey - explore different kinds of career development and choose the path that suits you best. We do expect world-leading software quality and personal dedication to the challenges you take on.
Engineering at Canonical ranges from deep single-product specialisation, to diverse customer-centric field integration, delivery and development, and high-pressure rapid-response to critical situations in our techops team. The right career for you will depend on your interests and aptitudes. If you love the idea of travel and seeing the world, our field engineers work on-site with the world’s best companies to transform their infrastructure with the cutting edge of open source.
If you love saving the day, our techops teams fight fires shoulder to shoulder, from security incident response to deep problem analysis and repair. If you love operations, we take a code-first approach to infrastructure and application operations that is raising the bar for the entire industry.
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We don't prescribe your journey – explore different kinds of career development and choose the path that suits you best. We do expect world-leading software quality and personal dedication to the challenges you take on. We encourage people to build a career that spans diverse aspects of software development and operations.
Regardless of your starting point, you have the option to progress in any of those roles, or to gain experience in management or technical leadership.
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Canonical announces the alpha release of Charmed OpenShell to help secure autonomous AI agent fleets
To streamline enterprise deployment and lifecycle management, Canonical is announcing the alpha release of Charmed OpenShell.
Ubuntu coming soon to Snapdragon X2 Series platforms, unlocking more Linux PCs for the agentic world
Canonical and Qualcomm Technologies announce upcoming native Ubuntu support for Qualcomm’s flagship laptop silicon, delivering multi-day battery life, 80 TOPS NPU acceleration, and seamless cloud-to-edge agentic AI capabilities for developers and enterprises. London, UK – September 23, 2026 – Canonical and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced a big step in the evolution of Linux personal computing: […]
Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q is available for pre-order with Ubuntu pre-installed
London, UK – August 25, 2026 – Following our initial collaboration announcement in March 2026, Canonical and Arduino (a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.) are excited to announce that VENTUNO Q is now generally available for pre-order, pre-loaded with Ubuntu. VENTUNO Q is a dual-brain developer board designed for edge AI and robotics applications. With […]
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