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Job Description
A Developer Relations Engineer at Canonical engages with open source communities and developers to promote Ubuntu and related products, providing technical expertise, creating content, and fostering innovation to improve the open source development experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with open source communities and developer organizations to communicate product vision and gather feedback.
- Participate in team meetings to contribute insights on product strategy and development progress.
- Maintain ongoing conversations with developer community members through various channels such as IRC, social media, forums, and meet-ups.
- Collaborate with internal teams to establish consistent approaches and address technical problems faced by users or colleagues.
- Contribute to technical documentation, articles, presentations, and workshops to meet developer needs.
- Identify opportunities for improving the developer experience and suggest new directions.
- Present at conferences, meetups, or technical events to promote and explain products and initiatives.
Requirements
- A programmer or developer with a demonstrable passion for and engagement in open-source software.
- Experience working with real-world challenges developing and deploying software using Linux.
- Practical hands-on experience of Linux software packaging including Snaps, debs, charms, rocks, PIP, containers.
- Understanding of current software packing issues and trends in the Linux ecosystem.
- Experience as a contributor to open-source communities, software, and documentation.
- Ability to work effectively, tactfully, empathetically, and confidently in contexts where different parties have different perspectives, needs, and understanding.
- Willingness to travel globally twice a year for company events, upstream, and partner events.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues and partners
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for travel and company events
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