Linux Kernel Engineer - Ubuntu

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. Canonical has a large and rapidly growing kernel team that underpins Ubuntu and open source more widely across a range of hardware and use cases.

Job Description

We have opportunities for technical leadership, engineering management, and engineering directorships. The team is responsible for all supported Ubuntu Linux kernels, on all platforms and architectures from small embedded devices to standard desktop / server systems to large scale cloud environments, mainframes and supercomputers.

Kernel Team projects include but are not limited to :

• Ubuntu Linux kernel plan, execution, benchmarking and stress testing
• Optimized kernels for key silicon and cloud partners
• Confidential computing and next-generation security primitives
• Developer platforms such as Raspberry Pi and RISC-V
• Enabling Ubuntu on a wide range of embedded systems
• Kernel Livepatch, which delivers critical kernel fixes without rebooting
• FIPS compliance
• Real-Time and Low Latency kernel variants and patch-sets
• Virtualization or abstraction engines
• Container technology
• Security with AppArmor, SECCOMP, namespaces and more
• Networking - in particular performance and security
• Storage - we are particularly interested in Ceph and DRBD

Responsibilities

We hire candidates of all experience levels from recent university graduates through seasoned industry experts. You must have outstanding academic results, a background in software engineering, be motivated to work in a distributed team and willing to travel globally twice a year for company engineering events.

Requirements

We are looking for candidates with significant programming experience in C, with Python, Golang, or other like languages. Experience with operating system kernel internals and concepts, Linux would be highly regarded but not essential.

Nice-to-have skills

What we offer

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.

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