Performance Engineer - Open Source
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Posted January 20, 2026
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Job Description
This role involves driving software performance and correctness across various projects at Canonical, collaborating globally, developing shared tools and infrastructure, and mentoring teams to enhance performance engineering practices within the open source Ubuntu platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive software performance and correctness in specific projects
- Collaborate with global colleagues and community
- Develop and maintain shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, analysis, and reporting
- Teach, train, and develop team skills in performance culture and design
- Strengthen test capabilities, harnesses, and pipelines
- Analyze systems and code to understand performance and scalability
- Solve performance and correctness problems through direct action or influence
- Review code and technical designs
Requirements
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics.
- Demonstrable personal initiatives to measure and improve performance, efficiency, and correctness in code.
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation.
- A track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results.
- Leadership and commitment to skills development and mentorship.
- A passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives.
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues.
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills.
- Experience with Linux Debian or Ubuntu preferred.
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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