Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source
Canonical
Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India +5 moreremotePosted 17 days ago
Skill Required
Linux-EngineeringBackend-DevelopmentEmbedded-SystemsSenior-Rust-EngineerSenior-Rust-DeveloperLinux-Systems-Engineering-ManagerPrincipal-Linux-Software-EngineerRustSoftware-EngineerEngineeringLinuxandSystem DesigndesigningFirmwaresecuritybuildingEmbedded CFlutterwrittenPythondesignC++ReactCloudAPIsGoAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Highly experienced colleagues (1200+ across 75+ countries)
- Fully distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
- Location: open roles for Rust engineers in every time zone
- Company is founder-led, profitable, and growing
Role overview
Canonical is a leading open source software provider, best known for Ubuntu which powers enterprise initiatives in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and operates as a global distributed organization 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. This role focuses on driving Rust adoption across Canonical's offerings, from system firmware and embedded software through the kernel, with the goal of making Ubuntu the best platform for Rust development. This is a general process for Rust engineers of all seniority levels, with team fit determined after initial interviews based on personal interests.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement well-tested and well-documented software in Rust
- Advocate for Rust adoption in Canonical and upstream projects
- Identify projects and codebases that could be prioritised for Rust adoption
- Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
- Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
- Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications
- Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
- In some cases, deploy and operate services developed by the team
- Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy
Requirements
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- For more senior roles, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs
- Experience designing and writing high-quality Rust software on Linux
- Experience with and passion for Linux at the system level
- Professional written and spoken English
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
- Extensive personal experience with Linux - the more different versions of Linux the better
Nice to have
- Experience developing for Ubuntu
- Experience with LXD, MicroK8s, SnapD, IoT, Juju, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Pro
- Performance engineering and security experience
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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 very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals
- We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally
- Canonical has substantial projects in Python, Go, C, C++ and we are starting to invest in Rust
- For front-end development we prefer React and Flutter
- Join us in our mission to deliver innovative open-source solutions to individuals and enterprises around the world
- We expect the highest engineering standards and strong motivation to get things done well in a fully home-based and distributed environment
- Location: we have open roles for Rust engineers in every time zone
- This job posting is our general process for Rust engineers of all levels of seniority, for all relevant teams at Canonical
- After the first round of interviews we'll find the best fit product team at Canonical for you to progress your application based on your personal interests
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products
- Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration
- Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game