Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring 2025 and 2026 Graduate Software Engineers into engineering teams around the world. As a global platform company we offer a wide range of software engineering challenges, in both open source products and commercial business systems. We have teams that work in a variety of languages, typically Python, Go...

Most of our engineering teams work from home. We try to align a single team in a single time zone - EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), APAC (Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean), and AMER (North, South and Central Americas). Even though you work from home, we try to ensure you always have colleagues alongside to coach...

Shaping the roadmap for your product at global sprints every six months
Focusing on design and user experience, even for developer tooling and command line apps
Writing high quality, resilient and performant code, potentially serving millions of demanding daily users
Working towards mastery of key programming languages and Linux system knowledge
Engaging with users and the open source community through code reviews and issue trackers
Responding to customer issues as a priority, develop an understanding of enterprise requirements
Developing skills and awareness of security in software design and implementation

Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics or another STEM discipline with programming courses
Confidence to get started and deliver high quality code in one of Python, Rust, C/C++, Golang, JavaScript or Java
Experience with Ubuntu or another Linux distribution
Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
Result-oriented and organized, with the drive to meet commitments
Personal projects in technology and software engineering beyond the curriculum
Professional written and spoken English
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Personal responsibility and accountability
Thoughtfulness, self-awareness and the ability to reflect and develop
Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
Upstream open source contributions
Packaging and Linux distribution contributions - Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix or another
Leadership and organization skills
Presentation and writing skills
Business and commercial interests