Careers
Remote work
We are remote but connected
Canonical has been a fully distributed organization since its origin in 2004.
Our remote-first policy enables us to collaborate with the best in the world in our domain. Though most team members work remotely, we meet each other at least twice per year during in-person sprints to nurture cross-team relationships. These sprints are funded by Canonical, and take place at locations around the world.
Our work ethic
We build trust
Zero commute means more time for the things you enjoy. At the same time, we have very high expectations of commitment and independent execution.
We invest in people who are self-driven, motivated, and highly organized.
We take our responsibility for the most critical elements of open infrastructure very seriously, and we are committed to quality in every aspect of our product and services.
We engineer excellence
We aspire to lead on the global stage. There’s no other way to describe it than hard work, hard challenges, and hard competition.
You will need to show that you can compete in deeply challenging intellectual fields. Your colleagues are aiming for the top, and they depend on you to set the same standard in your area of responsibility. We value those who take ownership of their area and take opportunities to be exceptional.
We travel
We optimize our team structure for time zone overlap. Collaboration takes time to fully develop but leadership at Canonical means building cross-team relationships. We nurture those relationships through company sprints, which are in-person events that bring diverse teams or their leaders together.
We host these events around the world to discover great places to explore and appreciate in the process. Team events have taken place in Vancouver, Madrid, Riga, Cape Town, Prague, Lyon, London and many more.
As our customers transform their deepest and most important infrastructure to benefit from open source, they trust us to advise them and lead them to best practice. That also takes time on site, to whiteboard and to work shoulder to shoulder in their development halls and data centers. Many teams at Canonical travel for that deep customer presence.
If you are excited to see the world, Canonical is a great place to be. We expect everybody at Canonical to be willing and able to travel for up to two weeks at a time, twice a year.
An inside look at our sprints
Company sprints enable our globally distributed teams to nurture relationships and get to know their colleagues in person, whilst exploring inspirational locations.
During sprints, we hear from different leaders in the business, host break-out sessions to plan across teams and get to practice our public speaking skills at our much-awaited lightning talks.
