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Staff Engineer, Development Lifecycle

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Job Description

This role involves leading the effort to adapt and certify Ubuntu for use in highly regulated, mission-critical environments such as automotive, aerospace, and industrial robotics, by establishing engineering excellence, compliance standards, and collaborative practices across teams and external partners.

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 best 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 to support certification and compliance efforts.

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
  • Experience in leading successful compliance and certification efforts, including understanding the process and stakeholders management required
  • Experience with Linux
  • Proven ability to develop and grow people and teams with a track record of doing so

Benefits & Perks

Fully remote working environment
Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD 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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