Community Engineer multiple roles and seniority levels
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description
A Community Engineer at Canonical is responsible for fostering and managing open source community initiatives, supporting volunteer developers, and facilitating collaboration between the community and Canonical teams to promote the Ubuntu ecosystem and open source projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Enable community leaders and participants to coordinate and execute community initiatives
- Support and engage with the Ubuntu community through various communication channels
- Design, execute, and scale initiatives to foster a thriving open source community
- Collaborate with developers and internal teams to streamline processes and integrate community plans
- Create technical content and provide support to keep the community engaged and informed
- Represent Ubuntu and Canonical at conferences, events, and through speaking engagements
- Support volunteer developers in creating successful tools and ensuring project sustainability
- Lead complex programs from conception to launch in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams
Requirements
- Experience with developer tools and open source projects, with a clear public record of accomplishments such as talks, blog posts, GitHub contributions, or activity on social media platforms like X.
- Interest and experience with Ubuntu Linux, including kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, or container technology.
- Ability to work autonomously and assume full ownership of objectives as needed.
- Flexibility with working hours and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with new technology.
- Experience working with open source communities and understanding the workflow of volunteer contributors.
- Experience in technical program management with excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with developers and software engineers and represent the Ubuntu community and Canonical as a contributor to the wider Linux ecosystem.
- Willingness to travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events, with potential for additional travel if desired.
- Ability to write high-quality content to promote and support community initiatives, including blog posts and social media content.
- Strong organizational skills to nurture community contributions and engage with the community through platforms such as Discourse, Matrix, social media, and conferences.
- Passion for technology, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
- Self-motivation and the ability to work remotely from any location globally.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation with annual review and performance-driven bonus or commission
Fully remote work environment with global travel opportunities (2 to 4 weeks for events, potential for more)
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Program
Recognition rewards
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long haul company events
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