Jobs at Canonical

Canonical offers two distributions of upstream Kubernetes, and enables multiple partners to build their own specialised distributions too. For small clusters, IoT, and developers, we offer Microk8s, a very popular low-ops, self-healing, highly available Kubernetes. Our goal with MicroK8s is to have Kubernetes disappear into the background, with a one-command install and one-command cluster deployment approach that uses best-of-breed defaults, and maintains itself automatically. For large-scale deployments with complex integration requirements we offer Charmed Kubernetes, which enables people to mix-and-match components from a wide range of open source and proprietary vendors across the industry, with specific architectures on metal and clouds.
As the engineering manager of the Kubernetes team you'll engage the Kubernetes community, represent Canonical and Ubuntu at KubeCon, and use your engineering leadership abilities to guide teams using Python and Go to deliver exciting new features to thousands of enthusiastic users. Join our globally distributed team and help build the next generation of container technology for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, Edge and IoT.

This is an exciting opportunity for a leader passionate about strong teams, open source software, Linux and Kubernetes. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

What you'll do

• Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and commercial partners
• Oversee the quality, and engineering practices of a large team of software engineers building Kubernetes offereings.
• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who you are

• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You have some experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You bring an understanding of modern Linux, Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Practical experience with cloud technologies and containers

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As a senior team member, you'll be designing and implementing software that runs on various CPU architectures, such as ARM, RISC-V, and X86. You will work on boot mechanisms, bootloaders, storage partition layout, device trees, kernel, services, and userspace applications to manage the system via RESTful APIs.

Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code with unit tests to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events
• Integrate diverse bootloaders and maintain gadget snaps
• Develop system daemons with REST APIs in Golang

Who You Are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience with Golang, C/C++, and Shell
• You have a solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
• You have experience or interest in low-level system and security facilities such as:
  • Bootloaders in ARM and X86, such as piboot, uboot, grub-uefi
  • Systemd and units, udev, initrd, graphics
  • OS level firmware daemons and CLI applications
  • Linux security implementations - TPM, FDE, LUKS, HSM, etc.
• You have experience with API design and development - REST/gRPC or similar
• You have personal or professional experience with Linux-capable devices such as Raspberry Pi

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With ambitious growth plans for 2022 and beyond, we are seeking a Talent Assessment Lead to help drive our talent attraction process, and bring valuable insights on selecting game changing talent. This is an ideal opportunity for someone highly experienced in running behavioural assessments (interviews and psychometric testing) together with a passion for building talent attraction strategies.

The ideal candidate will be based in EMEA region.

The Role

You will have the opportunity to

• Provide consultative advice to our Hiring Leads helping them to drive their hiring processes, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in how we acquire talent at Canonical.
• Build key relationships with global stakeholders, understand their needs and review and deliver against our hiring agenda.
• Conduct in-depth behavioral HR interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Develop and evaluate the most effective sourcing and assessment methods to ensure Canonical stays ahead of the curve, in hiring the best possible talent around the globe.
• Collaborate with our internal Workplace Engineering Team to drive data driven insights, making sure our hiring data is accurate to inform our decisions.
• Ensure we build a great employer brand with candidate experience at the forefront of our approach.
• Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.
• Work with external third parties and platforms to ensure we maximise our return on investment.
• Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.

What You Will Bring To The Role

• A degree in psychology, sociology or a behavioural science, or, significant experience in behavioural talent assessments.
• A point of view on talent attraction and selection from within the Technology sector.
• Be a thought leader in the talent space with the ability to influence best practice, demonstrating a track record of driving exceptional hiring processes in technology.
• Experience of behavioural and competency based interviewing with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
• Experience of psychometric assessments would be highly advantageous
• Proven ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and be seen as an expert hiring partner to the business, as well as challenge the status quo.
• Experienced working in a data driven role where you are able to use metrics to fuel decision making and influence positive change.
• Successful track record of managing projects alongside BAU hiring agendas.
• Passionate about building a great employer brand and candidate experience.
• Excellent verbal and written English.
• Experience of successful configuration of hiring tools to enable the selection process (ATS - Greenhouse preferred, LinkedIn Recruiter/Talent Solutions)

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In this role, we are looking for someone with a background in mathematics or software engineering and a love of process and data to optimise, evolve and perfect our ATS (Greenhouse) configuration and integrations. We will prefer candidates that have outstanding academic results and those with analytics or software skills, because we have a particular focus on data and software-defined automation.

Essential to this role, you will bring an in-depth technical knowledge of our Greenhouse platform with a solid appreciation and understanding of how this impacts a hiring and Talent Acquisition strategy. You will also have experience of working with other third party hiring tools i.e. LinkedIn, testing tools and assessment platforms etc. This is a rare opportunity to join a high growth organisation where the science behind hiring forms the basis of our process and the hiring decisions we make.This role is based in the EMEA region and will form an integral part of the Talent Acquisition function.

The role

We are looking for an experienced Technical ATS Platform Lead to:

• Own our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, leveraging automation, process improvement and product development to enable our talent attraction strategy.
• Bring code-centric solutions (preferably in Python) complex challenges where official automation does not exist.
• Lead and develop our data driven reporting capability to allow us insights and metrics to make the best hiring decisions as we scale as a business.
• Drive partnerships and account management for Greenhouse and across other selection and assessment platforms (LinkedIn, DevSkiller, ClassMarker, Thomas International, Stack Overflow etc).
• Be responsible for how we organise and manage our data, to ensure that we are compliant with relevant data privacy and data protection policies and regulations.
• Own the relationship with Financial Planning & Analysis ensuring that commercials align to the hiring plan.
• Bring a passion for best practice in Talent Acquisition helping to connect our technology to our hiring strategy.

What you bring to the role

• A degree in a technology field, or, significant experience in managing and leading technologies in the talent attraction space.
• Excellent 'back end' understanding of Greenhouse, or similar ATS platform, with considerable hands on working knowledge of implementations and configurations.
• Experienced working in a data driven role, with excellent coding skills (Python) as well as strong understanding of data visualisation techniques.
• Great project management and account management skills with the ability to drive critical workflows to deliver real value to the business.
• Experience of working with other recruitment platforms i.e. LinkedIn, that integrate via Greenhouse, with a deep understanding of how these connect to enable ROI.
• Passionate about building a great employer brand and candidate experience.
• Excellent verbal and written English.