Systems Engineer
Senior Security Operations Engineer leading SOC, threat hunting, and security tool development on Kubernetes and AWS, building custom automation and ensuring platform protection.
The Canonical Security Operations team is hiring for a Senior or Staff engineer. The Security Operations team is responsible for designing, building, and operating a world-class Security Operations Center, and the successful candidate will provide leadership, mentorship, expertise, and outstanding individual contributions towards those ends.
This role involves aspects of:
We are looking for individuals with engineering and security experience, as well as a history of remarkable achievement. Senior security operations personnel with engineering experience and senior developers with security experience are equally well-suited to this role.
Beyond securing Canonical ’s digital estate, this position represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the open source ecosystem. Team members may present at industry conferences, share threat intelligence with the wider community, or publish open source security software.
Junior positions are also available for less-experienced individuals with a compelling academic or professional background.
In this role, you will:
We are looking for:
Though optional, we value:
Posted June 22, 2026