Staff Design Engineer - Cloud Networking UX

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of cloud networking user experience at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. We're looking for an exceptional Staff Design Engineer who can make complex networking infrastructure intuitive, powerful, and delightful for developers and operations teams working in cloud enviro...

As a Staff Design Engineer, you'll define the UX vision for how users interact with networking across our cloud portfolio—from MAAS to MicroCloud and Ubuntu Server networking. You'll work on challenges like visualizing network topologies, designing intuitive configuration interfaces, and creating experiences that ma...

Defining and driving the UX strategy for cloud networking products across Canonical's portfolio
Designing intuitive interfaces for highly complex networking concepts that rethink VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, load balancers, and network observability
Creating and evolving design systems and patterns that scale across multiple products and platforms
Conducting user research with DevOps engineers, network administrators, SREs, and cloud architects to understand their workflows, pain points, and mental models
Building prototypes and high-fidelity designs using Figma or similar tools
Creating experiences for network troubleshooting, monitoring, and observability
Working on both GUI and terminal-based user experiences, understanding that our users span from UI to CLI preferences
Mentoring designers and contribute to design culture across Canonical
Owning one of our working groups to enable Canonical design’s horizontal efforts

Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
8+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or interaction design, with a strong portfolio of B2B/enterprise products
Solid understanding of cloud computing and networking fundamentals, experience designing for developers and operations teams, and their workflows
Strong information architecture skills and can organize complex systems into clear, navigable structures
Experienced in user research methodologies and can translate findings into actionable design decisions
Excellent communication skills and can articulate design rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences
Self-motivated, organized, and comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first environment
Knowledge and passion for the intersection of user experience, technology and design
Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long