almost 2 years ago
Responsibilities
- Contribute technical insight and expertise to product meetings ranging from strategy to daily development
- Engage with developer communities through IRC, social media, product forums, meetups, and other channels
- Collaborate across company teams to establish commonality and consistent approaches
- Solve technical problems identified by users or colleagues
- Contribute to technical documentation for developer users
- Create technical articles, presentations, and workshops
- Identify opportunities to improve the developer experience
- Present at conferences, meetups, and technical events
Requirements
- Demonstrable programming or software development experience and a strong passion for open-source software
- Real-world experience developing and deploying software using Linux
- Hands-on Linux software packaging experience with Snaps, debs, charms, rocks, PIP, and containers
- Understanding of current software packaging issues and trends in the Linux ecosystem
- Contributions to open-source communities, software, or documentation
- Strong speaking and presentation skills
- Ability to work tactfully and empathetically across groups with different perspectives and needs
- Ability to build trust, relationships, and confidence
- Willingness to travel globally twice a year for company events and to upstream or partner events
- Previous developer advocacy or community experience is an additional asset
- In-depth familiarity with Ubuntu and the Canonical ecosystem is an additional asset
Benefits
- Distributed remote-first work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
- USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides open source security, support and services. Our portfolio covers critical systems, from the smallest devices to the largest clouds, from the kernel to containers, from databases to AI. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone.