Community Engineer (multiple roles and seniority levels)
Canonicalvia Canonical
Salary
Not Disclosed
Location
Remote (Worldwide)
Type
Full Time
Deadline
30 Oct 2026
6 days left
Job Description
Canonical's Community team helps community leaders and volunteers run efficient, well-coordinated projects - designing and scaling community initiatives, linking community plans with Canonical's plans, representing community interests inside Canonical, and leading multi-disciplinary programs from concept to launch with Developer Relations, technical authors, product, marketing and engineering teams.
Write high-quality content, including blogs and social media posts, about community initiatives and collaboration
Engage the Ubuntu community through Discourse, Matrix, social media and conferences
Support and advise volunteer developers, helping them build successful tools and sustainable projects
Help encourage new technical projects that improve the community contribution experience
Speak at events and conferences on behalf of Ubuntu and Canonical
Help Canonical teams engage with the wider open source ecosystem
Roughly 2 to 4 weeks per year of global travel for internal and external events
Requirements
A genuine interest in technology and working with capable people
Curiosity, flexibility, clear communication and accountability
Strong soft skills and a self-motivated, enterprising approach
Experience with developer tools and open source projects, and an understanding of how volunteer contributors work
A visible public record, such as talks, blog posts or GitHub activity
Interest or experience in Linux and infrastructure areas, such as Ubuntu, DevOps, testing, packaging or containers
Ability to work autonomously and own objectives
Experience in (technical) program management and strong organisational and interpersonal skills
Nice to have: community management or developer advocacy experience
Nice to have: software development experience
Nice to have: contributions to the Ubuntu community or other open source projects
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