Software Engineer
Software Engineer focused on automotive and industrial architecture, building scalable, open‑source solutions on Ubuntu for cloud, AI, and IoT deployments. Works on enterprise‑grade software that powers public cloud and silicon platforms.
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough 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 multiple positions from early-career engineers to experienced architects focused on the different dimensions of dependable software: cybersecurity, quality, and safety.
What does it take to bring the world’s open source software into mission-critical systems? At Canonical , we are driving the engineering discipline needed to build secure, reliable, and high-quality products that our automotive and industrial partners can depend on. Ubuntu is already the world’s most widely used Linux distribution in general; we want to make it the world’s best choice for the automotive and industrial sectors too.
We operate at the boundary between upstream open source innovation and the industrial regulatory realities. Our engineers define the concepts, architectures, processes, verification strategies, and certification artifacts to transform a general-purpose platform into a dependable, certifiable foundation for automotive and industrial compute. This is systems-level engineering at scale, requiring precision, rigor, and a deep understanding of how complex software behaves in constrained, regulated environments.
We are looking for engineers and architects who combine an open source hacker and builder mindset with respect for rigorous, standards-driven engineering. You will work across Canonical engineering teams and with leading industrial partners, helping to build this capability from the ground up and shaping how open source enters the most demanding technical domains.
Location : This is a remote role based in the EMEA region.
The role entails
Posted June 20, 2026