Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives in 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.

We are hiring 2024 and 2025 Graduate Software Engineers into engineering teams around the world. As a global platform company we offer a wide range of software engineering challenges, in both open source products and commercial business systems. We work with languages such as Python, Golang, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Bash. We work from the lowest levels of the Linux system up to desktop applications and containers, including work on BIOS and boot loaders, firmware, kernel and drivers. Projects span devices from Raspberry Pi to RISC-V boards, supercomputers, clouds and Kubernetes clusters. We work on compilers and toolchains, security, cryptography, performance and documentation, with teams focusing on packaging thousands of pieces of software or contributing to a single codebase.

If you are excited about the potential of open source for humanity and the enterprise, have outstanding results in your academic career, and want to contribute to the open source stack, this is a strong way to apply to Canonical. We will identify teams and projects that fit your skills and motivations. The process is competitive and will require effort and excellence to succeed.

Most of our engineering teams work from home. We aim to align a single team in a single time zone (EMEA, APAC, or AMER). You will have colleagues to coach and mentor you, with opportunities for pair programming. Larger projects may involve multiple teams spanning the globe. We collaborate with the open source community and build teams that work well in the open source ecosystem. This is full-time, five days a week, with limited weekend or night work and normal holiday considerations.

We bring all engineering teams together in person twice a year for a sprint with other teams to stimulate discussion and development across career paths. This role offers a range of technologies and opportunities to learn and have an impact on open source while developing your software skills.

If you find the open source stack amazing and have been a consistent high-performing student, this will be a challenging and exciting start to your career.

Location: This is a globally remote role.

The role entails

• Shaping the roadmap for your product at global sprints every six months
• Focusing on design and user experience, even for developer tooling and command line apps
• Writing high quality, resilient and performant code, potentially serving millions of demanding daily users
• Working towards mastery of key programming languages and Linux system knowledge
• Engaging with users and the open source community through code reviews and issue trackers
• Responding to customer issues as a priority, developing an understanding of enterprise requirements
• Developing skills and awareness of security in software design and implementation

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics or another STEM discipline with programming courses
• Confidence to start and deliver high quality code in one of Python, Rust, C/C++, Golang, JavaScript or Java
• Experience with Ubuntu or another Linux distribution
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Result-oriented and organized, with the drive to meet commitments
• Personal projects in technology and software engineering beyond the curriculum
• Professional written and spoken English
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Personal responsibility and accountability
• Thoughtfulness, self-awareness and the ability to reflect and develop
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

Nice-to-have skills

• Upstream open source contributions
• Packaging and Linux distribution contributions - Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix or another
• Leadership and organization skills
• Presentation and writing skills
• Business and commercial interests

What we offer colleagues

• 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
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, we are advancing software for AI, IoT and the cloud. We recruit on a global basis and uphold high standards for new hires. Most colleagues have worked from home since 2004. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a workplace free from discrimination and provide fair consideration to all applicants regardless of identity.

Seniority level

• Internship

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development

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