Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Desktop Apps

Canonical

📍 Home based - Worldwide 💼 Fully Remote 📅 Posted: 2026-05-07 🌟 3/5 Relevance 📊 Source: Greenhouse Canonical

Job Description

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. 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.

Our Ubuntu Desktop engineering teams build the modern Linux desktop experience used daily by millions of developers, enterprises, and open source communities worldwide.

Location: We have remote roles open in every time zone.

About the team

The Ubuntu Desktop Apps team, as part of the broader Ubuntu Desktop team, designs and builds the core user-facing applications that shape the Ubuntu desktop experience.

This includes key projects such as the Ubuntu Desktop Installer, the Ubuntu App Center, the Ubuntu Security Center, TPM-backed full disk encryption integration and Application Permission prompting.

Our applications are primarily built using Flutter and Dart, with system components and services implemented in Go and Rust.

The team works across the full engineering lifecycle, defining the roadmap, contributing to product design and system architecture, implementing features and conducting code reviews, maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing, improving quality, reliability, and performance, and ensuring smooth release management and delivery to users.

The Role

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Ubuntu Desktop Apps team.

This is a technical leadership role combining people management with active engineering involvement. You wi...

Skills & Technologies

Cloud Data Design Engineering Go HR Lead Management Platform Product
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