Developer Relations Engineer

Responsibilities

• Participate in team product meetings, contributing insight and expertise
• Maintain conversations with developer communities across IRC, social media, forums, and meetups
• Collaborate with colleagues to establish commonality and consistent approaches
• Solve specific technical problems identified by users or colleagues
• Contribute to technical documentation for developer users
• Create technical articles, presentations, or workshops
• Identify opportunities to improve the developer experience
• Present at conferences, meetups, and technical events

Requirements

• Programmer or developer with demonstrable passion for open-source software
• Experience developing and deploying software using Linux
• Hands-on experience with Linux software packaging (Snaps, debs, charms, rocks, PIP, containers)
• Understanding of current software packaging issues and trends in the Linux ecosystem
• Contributor to open-source communities, software, and documentation
• Engaging speaker and presenter
• Ability to work effectively, tactfully, and empathetically across organizational boundaries
• Willingness to travel globally twice a year for company and partner events

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in a developer advocacy or community role
• In-depth familiarity with Ubuntu and the Canonical ecosystem

Benefits

• Distributed remote work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review and performance-driven bonus
• Recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Travel opportunities to meet colleagues globally
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, the company recruits globally and sets a very high standard for excellence. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.