Staff Design Engineer - Cloud Networking UX
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 20 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Competitive base pay (dependent on location, experience, knowledge and skills)
- 8+ years of relevant product/UX/interaction design experience
- Fully remote working environment
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events
- Personal learning and development budget of $2,000 per annum
Role overview
This is an opportunity to shape the future of cloud networking user experience at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. We're looking for an exceptional Staff Design Engineer who can make complex networking infrastructure intuitive, powerful, and delightful for developers and operations teams working in cloud environments. As a Staff Design Engineer, you'll define the UX vision for how users interact with networking across our cloud portfolio—from MAAS to MicroCloud and Ubuntu Server networking, tackling challenges like visualizing network topologies, designing intuitive configuration interfaces, and creating experiences that make infrastructure manageable at scale.
Responsibilities
- Defining and driving the UX strategy for cloud networking products across Canonical's portfolio
- Designing intuitive interfaces for highly complex networking concepts that rethink VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, load balancers, and network observability
- Creating and evolving design systems and patterns that scale across multiple products and platforms
- Conducting user research with DevOps engineers, network administrators, SREs, and cloud architects to understand their workflows, pain points, and mental models
- Building prototypes and high-fidelity designs using Figma or similar tools
- Creating experiences for network troubleshooting, monitoring, and observability
- Working on both GUI and terminal-based user experiences, understanding that our users span from UI to CLI preferences
- Mentoring designers and contribute to design culture across Canonical
- Owning one of our working groups to enable Canonical design’s horizontal efforts
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- 8+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or interaction design, with a strong portfolio of B2B/enterprise products
- Solid understanding of cloud computing and networking fundamentals, experience designing for developers and operations teams, and their workflows
- Strong information architecture skills and can organize complex systems into clear, navigable structures
- Experienced in user research methodologies and can translate findings into actionable design decisions
- Excellent communication skills and can articulate design rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Self-motivated, organized, and comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first environment
- Knowledge and passion for the intersection of user experience, technology and design
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
- Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Benefits
- Base pay will depend on geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills; competitive base pay
- Additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation
- Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- 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 details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT initiatives
- Customers include world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders in many sectors
- Company is pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing
- Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region
- The role sits in the design team reporting to the Infrastructure design manager and is expected to have a company‑wide impact
- Canonical is a remote‑first company since its inception in 2004
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer and fosters a workplace free from discrimination
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products