Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

If you are excited about the potential that open source has for humanity and the enterprise, you have outstanding results in your academic career, and you are excited to contribute to the open source stack, this is the best way to apply to Canonical. We will work with you to identify teams and projects that would be interesting and a good fit for your skills and motivations. The process is highly competitive, it will require effort and excellence to succeed if you apply here.

Most of our engineering teams work from home. We try to align a single team in a single time zone - EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), APAC (Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean), and AMER (North, South and Central Americas). Even though you work from home, we try to ensure you always have colleagues alongside to coach and mentor you, and for the companionship of shared problem solving and pair programming. Larger projects have multiple teams and might span the globe. We work with the open source community and specialize in building teams that work well in the 'fishbowl' of open source engineering. This is full time work, five days a week, often solving hard problems with significant responsibility. We don't generally work weekends and nights and we do enjoy good holidays but we also expect productive and intense engagement Monday to Friday.

We bring all our engineering teams together in person twice a year for a deep 'sprint' with other teams to stimulate discussion and enable a wide range of career development paths. This is a fantastic way to demonstrate and develop your skill in software, learn about a wide range of technologies, make a meaningful impact to open source, and see some very interesting new cities that you might never otherwise get to visit.

If you find the open source stack amazing, and you have been a consistent high-performing student in your school and university, then 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, develop 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 get started 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 accountab