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Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

Canonical, Fresno, California, United States, 93650

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Overview Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu – join Canonical as part of our engineering teams across the globe. 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 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.

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 across languages including Python, Golang, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Bash. We work at levels from BIOS and boot loaders, firmware, kernel and drivers to desktop applications and containers. We work on devices from Raspberry Pi and new RISC-V boards to supercomputers, clouds and Kubernetes clusters. We work on captors such as compilers, toolchains, security, cryptography, performance and documentation. Some teams focus on packaging thousands of pieces of software, others on deep contributions to a single body of code.

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

Most of our engineering teams work from home. We aim to align a single team in a single time zone – EMEA, APAC, and AMER. Even though you work from home, you will have colleagues to coach and mentor you, and for problem solving and pair programming. Larger projects may span the globe. We work with the open source community and build teams that thrive in the open source engineering “fishbowl.” This is full-time work, five days a week, typically Monday to Friday, with limited weekends and holidays, and with productive engagement.

We bring our engineering teams together in person twice a year for a deep sprint with other teams to stimulate discussion and enable career development paths. This is a fantastic way to demonstrate and develop your software skills, learn about new technologies, and visit interesting cities.

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

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 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

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 company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence — in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

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.

Job details

Seniority level: Internship

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development

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