Staff Engineer, Development Lifecycle
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 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 engineering excellence and open-source principles.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to define, implement, and improve processes, standards, and qualification requirements.
- Establish and measure quality metrics to shape and enhance engineering culture and practices.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with external standards groups, committees, and partners.
- Participate in defining and delivering the company's vision for engineering excellence in mission-critical systems.
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 with Linux
- Experience in leading successful compliance and certification efforts, including stakeholder management
- Proven ability to develop and grow people and teams
- Experience in establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
- Background as a software developer (preferred but not mandatory)
- Ability to transform complex regulatory demands into concrete engineering outcomes and practices
- Ability to lead and challenge engineering culture across multiple teams and levels
- Experience working with external standards groups, committees, or partners
- Experience defining and implementing continuous improvement processes in engineering
- Experience working in or with highly regulated environments such as automotive, aerospace, or industrial robotics (implied by the role focus)
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
Base salary with potential additional benefits such as annual bonuses and sales incentives
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