Staff Engineer, Development Lifecycle
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
Not Specified
Remote
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Job Description
This role involves leading the development and implementation of engineering processes, standards, and practices to make Ubuntu suitable for mission-critical applications in highly regulated industries such as automotive, aerospace, and industrial robotics, ensuring compliance, quality, and engineering excellence across teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to adapt Ubuntu for use in highly regulated environments such as automotive, aerospace, and industrial robotics.
- Transform complex regulatory, compliance, and certification demands into concrete engineering outcomes and practices.
- Challenge and influence engineering culture across teams to adopt and internalize engineering excellence and open-source values.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to define, implement, and improve processes, standards, and qualification requirements.
- Establish methods for measuring and improving engineering quality and culture.
- Build strategic relationships with external standards groups, committees, and partners.
Requirements
- Strong experience in engineering and process management in an agile environment
- Knowledge or certification of standards addressing quality of software artifacts such as ISO IEC 25010 or ASPICE
- Proven track record of developing and growing people and teams
- Experience leading successful compliance and certification efforts, including understanding the process and stakeholders management required
- Experience with Linux
- Background as a software developer (preferred but not mandatory)
- Experience in establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote working environment
Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Parental Leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at sprints
Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives (depending on role and location)
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