by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
If you love solving messy real world infrastructure problems and turning them into clean, repeatable reference architectures, this is your lane. You’ll work directly with Canonical’s biggest partners and help them ship joint solutions that actually work in the wild.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and powers open source platforms used across cloud, AI, and the edge. They are founder led, profitable, and remote first since 2004, with teammates across 70+ countries. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical credibility and partner facing strategy.
Schedule
- Fully remote, worldwide (home based)
- Partner facing role with global collaboration and async work habits
- Travel required up to 30% for partner engagements and team events
What You’ll Do
• Architect cloud and data center solutions using Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubeflow, and Spark across on prem and public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Help partners design joint solutions that run Canonical technologies in the data center and on public clouds
• Integrate and validate open source components like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, and NGINX
• Design and publish joint reference architectures and run technical validations with alliance partners
• Lead onboarding sessions and workshops with partner teams, including demos and technical deep dives
• Translate customer environments and constraints into practical, secure, scalable designs
What You Need
• Extensive Linux experience (Ubuntu preferred), plus strong Kubernetes, Ceph, and automation fundamentals
• Experience designing and implementing solutions on public cloud or private cloud environments
• Working knowledge of Python and Bash, plus strong troubleshooting instincts
• Fluent written and spoken English, with sharp presentation and partner communication skills
• High follow through, ability to juggle multiple partner threads, and reliability on commitments
• Comfort in customer facing work: pitching, demonstrating, discovery, and technical advising
• Curiosity for newer Canonical tech like LXD, Juju, and Snaps
• Degree in a technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
Benefits
• Annual compensation review plus performance driven bonus
• USD 2,000 per year learning and development budget
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly in person team sprints
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Global travel opportunities, plus Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul events
Roles like this don’t stay open forever. If you can speak cloud, kernel, and business in the same sentence, move.
Go help partners build the kind of open source solutions that don’t collapse under real usage.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Help protect Ubuntu users and the open source community by tracking, fixing, and shipping security patches that matter. You’ll join a globally distributed team that works fast, documents well, and treats security like a craft.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, IoT, and enterprise. They are founder led, profitable, and built for distributed work, with teammates across 75+ countries. The security team’s mission is simple: make the ecosystem safer, one vulnerability at a time.
Schedule
- Fully remote, worldwide (home based)
- Work effectively with a globally distributed team (strong async habits and self direction)
- International travel required 2 to 4 times per year for in person team events (typically 1 to 2 weeks total per event cycle; at least two trips per year is expected)
What You’ll Do
• Analyze, fix, and test vulnerabilities in open source packages
• Monitor and triage new and existing vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu ecosystem using internal tools
• Coordinate patches and remediation with upstream developers and Ubuntu community teams
• Audit source code for security issues and document findings clearly
• Build features, tools, and security improvements that strengthen Ubuntu overall
What You Need
• Strong grasp of common vulnerability classes and practical remediation techniques
• Familiarity with coordinated disclosure and responsible vulnerability handling
• Comfort working in open source workflows and development methodologies
• Proficiency in at least one language: C, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby, PHP, or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Solid Linux experience (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Clear communication, sound judgment, and strong troubleshooting instincts
• Professional maturity: curiosity, accountability, and effectiveness across cultures
Benefits
• Annual compensation review, plus performance driven bonus or commission
• USD 2,000 per year learning and development budget
• Distributed work environment with in person team sprints
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program and wellness platform
• Travel opportunities to meet colleagues, plus long haul travel upgrades and Priority Pass perks
If you want a security role where your work ships to millions and your team trusts you to own the problem, don’t sit on this.
Bring your craft, your curiosity, and your receipts. Canonical will give you the scale.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build reliable backend systems that ship daily, stay monitored, and don’t fall apart under real traffic. If you’re strong in APIs, DevOps minded, and you like owning a subsystem end-to-end, Nightwatch is basically calling your name.
About Nightwatch
Nightwatch is a bootstrapped SaaS company building forward-thinking SEO and AI performance tools for internet professionals. They’re fully remote, intentionally low-meeting, and serious about craft: code reviews, tests, CI/CD, and shipping without bureaucracy.
Schedule
- Full-time or Part-time
- Remote: Yes (work from anywhere)
- Hours: Fully flexible, choose your own schedule
- Collaboration: Daily Slack updates (written stand-ups), two weekly conference calls
- Workflow: Kanban
- Expectation: Own your work, be proactive, and take responsibility for the systems you build
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain performant, well-tested, well-monitored APIs and backend services
- Design efficient data flows and robust web application infrastructure
- Implement automated tests across the stack and keep CI/CD pipelines healthy
- Spin up and manage servers for deployments and operational reliability
- Build and maintain concurrent background job systems and message-queue patterns
- Write clear internal and user documentation
- Own a subsystem end-to-end: from design through production stability
- Contribute to a major architecture overhaul: moving from uncached relational DB querying to a scalable streaming architecture using Kafka and ClickHouse
- Work with production tooling and infrastructure (Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, AWS services, Grafana, Kafka, ClickHouse)
What You Need
- Advanced programming experience in at least a couple of: Go, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Bash
- Ruby on Rails experience
- Comfort with functional programming concepts
- Strong Linux shell proficiency
- Ability to spin up servers and make them deploy-ready
- Strong belief in automated tests and ability to implement them across the stack
- Experience designing deploy flows and continuous integration
- Strong database knowledge: key-value stores, SQL, relational DBs (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience building robust background job systems with concurrency patterns and message queues
- Fluent English with consistent daily communication
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
Benefits
- Work from anywhere with completely flexible hours
- Generous vacation time (family and travel friendly)
- Team building events around the world
- High trust, low overhead, ship-every-day environment with strong engineering standards
They’re building for the long haul, not the “here for the bag” crowd. If that’s you, step up.
Share your CV, why you want in, and the software you’re most proud of (and why).
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build fast, clean, high-performing SPAs for internet pros and obsess over UX like it’s your love language. If you’re the type who can spot a browser bottleneck, fix it, test it, and still care how it feels to use, this team will make sense.
About Nightwatch
Nightwatch builds SEO and AI performance tracking tools for fast-growing teams who want to scale and compete in search. They’re bootstrapped, fully remote, and intentionally building a smaller-company culture focused on autonomy, flexibility, craft, and long-term team fit.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes (100%)
- Hours: Flexible, choose your own schedule
- Collaboration: Daily Slack updates, two weekly conference calls
- Workflow: Kanban
- Expectation: Own your time, stay accountable, and help keep an eye on production health and incidents
What You’ll Do
- Build advanced SPA web applications with strong UX and performance focus
- Write clean, maintainable JavaScript and CSS, including scalable CSS architectures
- Inspect and resolve browser performance bottlenecks
- Work with modern front-end frameworks (Ember.js is the primary one, or learn it fast)
- Implement responsive UI and data visualizations
- Write unit and integration tests for front-end features
- Occasionally touch backend code when needed and help support production operations
What You Need
- Advanced knowledge of modern JavaScript
- Advanced CSS skills, including maintainable CSS architecture patterns
- Strong familiarity with layout libraries (Bootstrap, Tailwind, or similar)
- Excellent UX instincts and attention to product details
- Ember.js experience or genuine willingness and ability to learn it quickly
- Solid experience writing front-end tests (unit and integration)
- Self-driven and disciplined working remotely with a distributed team
Benefits
- 100% remote team with high autonomy and flexibility
- Relaxed, small-team environment with highly skilled developers
- Strong emphasis on craftsmanship, maintainability, and testing
- A culture that values personal growth, education, compassion, and long-term team fit
They’re clearly hiring for craft and commitment, not job-hoppers. If that’s you, move.
Send your CV plus proof of work (open source, proud projects, or a portfolio) and tell them what you’ll bring.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build a modern PWA that powers productivity apps across web and multiple platforms, using React as the common framework. If you love clean component architecture, performance tuning, and shipping features that people actually use daily, this one’s worth a look.
About Checklist
Checklist builds productivity apps across Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and web. They lean heavily on React to keep a shared framework across platforms, and they run as a fully remote team that values independence, creativity, and ownership.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes
- Hours: Not specified (team is fully remote)
- Time zones: Not specified
- Expectations: Collaborative development, quality-first engineering, and building maintainable UI systems
What You’ll Do
- Develop a new Progressive Web App (PWA) using React.js
- Build reusable components and front-end libraries designed for use across multiple platforms
- Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality, maintainable code
- Optimize UI components for performance across devices and browsers
- Practice test-driven development using tools like Jest and Cypress
- Collaborate with teammates working across different layers of the product and infrastructure
What You Need
- Strong React.js experience and comfort with common patterns and workflows (Redux, Sagas)
- ES6+ and TypeScript experience
- Familiarity with data structure libraries (like Immutable.js)
- Experience integrating RESTful APIs
- Experience with Firebase SDKs (Firestore and Auth)
- Comfort with modern front-end tooling (Git, Babel, Webpack, NPM, Jest, Cypress, redux dev tools)
- Strong written and spoken English
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and ship clean solutions
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment
- Ownership and room to grow into bigger responsibilities
- Opportunity to help build a shared library framework used across their apps
- Space for independence, ideas, and creative problem solving
They’re looking for experienced React devs. If you’ve got the chops, don’t sit on it.
This is the kind of role where strong engineers get to leave fingerprints all over the product.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Help build and automate the cloud foundation behind a major healthcare data platform, where reliability and security actually affect real people. If you love Azure + Terraform and you can make Databricks behave at scale, you’ll have real ownership here.
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a healthcare performance improvement company focused on measurable, data-informed results for healthcare organizations. Their work blends data platforms, analytics, and domain expertise to help teams improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. They’re remote-first and invest heavily in culture, inclusion, and professional growth.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes (U.S. only)
- Travel: None anticipated
- On-call: Participation in a 24×7 rotation for critical platform services
- Note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and operate the cloud foundations that support the Ignite platform and internal engineering systems
- Deploy and manage Azure and Databricks infrastructure using Terraform and automated pipelines
- Build and maintain platform automation tools for provisioning, configuration, and environment management
- Manage Databricks workspaces including networking, access control, and compute configuration
- Improve reliability, observability, and scalability through proactive monitoring and automation
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform tooling into CI/CD workflows
- Contribute to code reviews, mentor teammates, and help drive strong engineering practices across the platform
What You Need
- 3+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (Azure preferred)
- 1+ year of Databricks experience, including workspace setup, networking, access control, compute config, and Terraform automation
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, plus comfort with CLI and scripting for provisioning and config
- Azure DevOps experience, including YAML pipelines, templates, and environment deployments
- Solid networking knowledge (VNets, subnets, private endpoints, NAT, DNS, routing)
- Security and governance experience including secure access patterns, secrets management, and compliance-minded engineering
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD, source control workflows, automated testing, and promotion across environments
- Scripting and automation ability (PowerShell, SQL, YAML, and similar)
Benefits
- Remote-first work environment
- Flexible PTO
- Professional development stipend
- Best-in-class benefits designed to support work-life balance and long-term growth
- Strong culture of inclusion and team member support
Posted earlier. Roles like this move quietly, so don’t overthink it.
If you want a cloud role where automation and platform reliability are the mission, this is a strong swing.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
