by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Lead the team that keeps real customer clouds running, not in theory but in production, under SLAs, across time zones. If you know OpenStack, understand distributed systems, and can balance delivery with operational excellence, this is a high impact leadership role.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, and enterprise. They are founder led, profitable, and remote first since 2004, with teammates across 75+ countries. The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern private cloud environments for customers, spanning OpenStack, Kubernetes, and managed services operations.
Schedule
- Fully remote, worldwide
- Work in a globally distributed team with async collaboration
- Travel required for team events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less (plus company sprints twice yearly)
What You’ll Do
• Manage and grow an engineering team responsible for both development and day to day operations of customer cloud environments
• Improve team quality and velocity by implementing disciplined engineering and operations processes
• Track and improve team health indicators, delivery predictability, and operational performance
• Represent the BootStack team to stakeholders, customers, and internal partner teams
• Maintain strong focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables across a fast moving roadmap
• Meet SLAs for customer deployments around the globe and deliver consistent managed services
• Drive continuous improvement in reliability, automation, and service delivery
What You Need
• Bachelor’s degree in a technology field (or equivalent experience)
• Proven experience with OpenStack in production environments
• Track record in software delivery (Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar) and or managing operations teams
• Strong commitment to testing practices and maintainable, high quality code
• Linux systems administration experience (Ubuntu or Debian a plus)
• Comfort with cloud topologies and complex distributed systems
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working in and leading distributed teams
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
Benefits
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly team sprints in person
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program and wellness platform
• Opportunity to travel to meet colleagues, plus Priority Pass and long haul travel upgrades
This is a role for someone who can keep the cloud stable while still pushing it forward. If you’re built for that mix of pressure and progress, take the shot.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Be the person who makes business systems feel smooth, fast, and reliable instead of clunky and fragile. If you know NetSuite and you like tightening processes, building clean solutions, and making teams more effective, Canonical is hiring.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, and enterprise. Remote first since 2004, they operate globally with teammates in 80+ countries. The Commercial Systems org powers Canonical’s internal business operations through systems like NetSuite and Salesforce, focusing on compliance, process quality, and great employee experience.
Schedule
- Fully remote in EMEA
- Work with globally distributed engineering and operations teams
- International travel required twice per year for company events (up to two weeks each)
What You’ll Do
• Build and improve solutions in NetSuite, Salesforce, and other business systems
• Partner with operations teams to translate business needs into specifications, technical designs, and implementations
• Participate in code reviews and help raise engineering and process standards across the team
• Learn Canonical’s business processes and make them more efficient through automation and better system design
• Depending on seniority, coach and mentor others and contribute to career development feedback
• Evangelize strong engineering and organizational practices that keep systems compliant and reliable
What You Need
• Hands on experience with NetSuite, Salesforce, or similar CRM/ERP platforms
• Strong process mindset with high standards for quality, documentation, and follow through
• Professional written and spoken English, plus solid presentation and stakeholder communication skills
• Results driven approach and a track record of delivering beyond expectations
• Technical degree or a compelling alternative path with proof of capability
• Willingness to travel internationally twice a year for company events
Benefits
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly team sprints in person
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Global travel opportunities, plus Priority Pass and long haul travel upgrades
If you’re the kind of admin who doesn’t just “maintain” a system but makes it better every month, this one fits.
Go build the backbone that keeps the business moving.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build the data streaming and telemetry backbone powering the next wave of IoT devices, at real global scale. If you can design secure, high throughput services in Python or Go and you care about governance as much as performance, Canonical is looking for you.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, and IoT worldwide. They are founder led, profitable, and remote first since 2004, with teammates across 75+ countries. The IoT engineering group is expanding Canonical’s SaaS telemetry and connectivity services within the Snappy ecosystem.
Schedule
- Fully remote in EMEA
- Work async with a globally distributed team
- Travel required 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events (up to 4 trips annually)
What You’ll Do
• Design and architect high performance service APIs and data services for streaming telemetry using Python and Golang
• Build governance, auditing, and management systems that keep IoT data secure, compliant, and operationally sound
• Partner with infrastructure teams to ship scalable cloud SaaS services and containerized on prem deployments for enterprise customers
• Take features from spec to production, optimizing reliability and performance at scale
• Review code and designs, set best practices, and provide technical oversight across projects
• Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and stakeholders on system design and tradeoffs
What You Need
• Experience designing scalable backend services, REST APIs, and messaging or data pipelines in Golang or Python
• Strong security mindset for IoT: secure connectivity, data governance, compliance, and risk management
• Practical experience with IAM, encryption, access control, and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)
• Ability to design high throughput, low latency systems for IoT data processing
• Familiarity with data streaming tech like MQTT, Kafka, or RabbitMQ
• Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry
• Bonus familiarity with industrial protocols like OPC UA or ModBus
• Comfort mentoring others and thriving in cross functional, high ownership teams
• Ubuntu familiarity as a dev and deployment platform
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, STEM, or equivalent experience
• Willingness to travel for team events
Benefits
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly in person team sprints
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program and wellness platform
• Global travel opportunities, plus Priority Pass and long haul travel upgrades
This is not “data engineering” in the spreadsheet sense. It’s systems engineering with consequences: scale, latency, security, and trust.
If that’s your kind of pressure, jump on it.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
This is the seat where you define how Canonical runs infrastructure at global scale, not just how it talks about it. If you live for infrastructure as code, cloud reliability, and building self service systems that don’t crumble under pressure, this role lets you shape the backbone behind Ubuntu’s worldwide distribution.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, IoT, and enterprise. Remote first since 2004, the company operates globally with teams across 80+ countries. The Information Systems team runs Canonical’s internal IT and the infrastructure that builds, packages, and ships Ubuntu to tens of millions of devices.
Schedule
- Fully remote in EMEA
- Work in a globally distributed, remote first environment
- Travel required twice per year for company events (about 4 weeks total per year)
What You’ll Do
• Define and implement the holistic vision for a world class internal cloud
• Set the technical design roadmap and reliability standards for SREs within Information Systems
• Partner with cloud ops software teams to influence roadmap, requirements, and priorities for a standardized, automated operation
• Guide IS leadership on technical choices, business cases, and reliability and resilience strategy
• Drive self service infrastructure and platform products that scale cleanly across teams
• Collaborate with product and operations security to set best practices and mitigate threats
• Design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies, and operating procedures with engineering teams
• Lead incident analysis and postmortems focused on root causes and structural fixes, not band aids
What You Need
• Deep knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies, and day to day operations
• Strong Linux networking fundamentals: routing, firewalls, internet transit, and large scale bandwidth networks
• Real experience handling significant production outages, incident response, and postmortems
• Strong open source mindset, ideally with Ubuntu or Debian familiarity and a habit of contributing back
• Clear English communication across email, chat, calls, and in person settings
• Confidence to speak up, share feedback, and lead technical direction respectfully
• Track record of delivering outstanding results and raising operational standards
• Technical degree or a compelling alternative path with proof of mastery
Benefits
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly team sprints in person
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Travel opportunities to meet colleagues, plus Priority Pass and long haul travel upgrades
If you want to design infrastructure that becomes the reference model for how open source should be operated at scale, don’t let this sit in your bookmarks.
This is influence, ownership, and real consequences, in the best way.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build the automation and tooling that makes high performance computing feel less like wizardry and more like a reliable product. If you write clean Python, love precision, and get excited about clusters, kernels, and ruthless efficiency, this role is built for you.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide. They are founder led, profitable, and remote first since 2004, with teammates across 70+ countries. The HPC team is focused on delivering a world class HPC experience across bare metal and public cloud as part of the Ubuntu platform.
Schedule
- Fully remote (Americas; role may also be filled in EMEA depending on need)
- Work in a globally distributed team with strong async communication
- Travel required up to 4 times per year for internal events
What You’ll Do
• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python software to automate key HPC software and workflows
• Help deliver and maintain charms that deploy and manage HPC clusters and related packages
• Debug complex issues and ship clean fixes across the stack, from tooling to packaging and beyond
• Contribute documentation and best practices for authoring reliable operators
• Collaborate with teammates to design practical solutions for real cluster operations
What You Need
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in CS, STEM, or related field
• Strong experience writing modern, maintainable Python
• Comfort in open source environments and interest in building with the community
• Curiosity, accountability, and solid communication in a remote, distributed team
• Experience in at least two areas such as Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Go, or Debian packaging
• Strong academic performance in math and science, with an exceptional academic track record preferred
• Willingness to travel for team events
Benefits
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly in person team sprints
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues, plus Priority Pass and long haul travel upgrades
If HPC is your kind of hard and you want your work to ship as part of Ubuntu’s global platform, don’t wait.
Bring the precision. Bring the curiosity. Let’s make clusters feel effortless.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
