Jobs at Canonical

What Your Day Will Look Like

• Manage and lead a distributed team of engineers
• Hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback and career development guidance to your team
• Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training
• Support timely delivery of bug fixes, patches, and other technical solutions to address business needs in a variety of technology fields, including but not limited to Ubuntu, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Juju & MAAS
• Demonstrate the very best of Canonical in customer interactions
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company value
• Collaborate with other teams in the organisation
• Work from home with global travel up to 10% for internal and external events

What We Are Looking For In You

• Professional software delivery experience using C, C++, Go, Java, Python, or similar
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• Leadership experience displaying ability to organise and prioritise complex problem resolution and bug fixes
• Experience with version control systems such as git
• Experience with debugging tools such as gdb, crash or other
• Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
• Excellent communication skills in the English language, both verbal and written
• Experience with Linux, with a preference towards Ubuntu
• Experience with Open Source and Open Source Business Models
• People management experience in a support organisation is a strong plus
• You have interest and deep experience with three or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging

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What Your Day Will Look Like

• Create, schedule and publish content and campaigns across multiple social media channels
• Deliver regular analysis and reporting on social media metrics, content performance and campaigns results
• Support the growth and nurturing of Canonical's social media audiences, while increasing engagement rates and valuable actions
• Develop flair with copywriting and asset creation to create messaging that aligns with the brand and its personality, and drives audiences towards action
• Be responsible for executing A/B and multivariate growth tests
• Be audience centric, focusing on platform and community moderation, as well as direct audience engagement
• Create awareness on integrated campaigns, product launches, webinar series, industry announcements and core content.
• Package all of Canonical's product offerings and educational material creatively, from bare metal, AI, Kubernetes to chats on diversity and CSR.

What We Are Looking For In You

• Experience managing social media platforms for tech brands, part of a content team or marketing agency
• Hands-on knowledge of social media management tools, an understanding of web analytics tools (social and web)
• Proficiency with at least four social media platforms including LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit
• An analytical eye and a good sense for the type of content that performs best depending on platform and objective
• Experience with educational content funnels, and using video as a core social media marketing asset
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong content marketer
• Proven ability to prioritise and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events