Website Canonical
Start your engineering career on the open-source stack
Canonical is recruiting 2025 and 2026 graduates as Graduate Software Engineers, working from home in engineering teams around the world. Teams are organised by time zone, so South African graduates can join EMEA teams. The work spans the whole Linux stack, from BIOS, boot loaders, firmware, kernel and drivers up to desktop apps, containers, Kubernetes and cloud. Hardware ranges from the Raspberry Pi and RISC-V boards to supercomputers.
What you’ll do:
– Contribute to open-source products and commercial business systems in languages such as Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Bash.
– Work on areas such as packaging, compilers and toolchains, security and cryptography, performance or documentation.
– Collaborate with the open-source community and get coaching and pair programming with colleagues in your time zone.
– Attend twice-yearly in-person engineering sprints in cities around the world.
What Canonical looks for:
– A recent or upcoming degree (2025/2026 graduates), with consistently outstanding results at school and university.
– Genuine passion for open source and Linux, and evidence of curiosity and initiative in software.
– Strong communication skills and the drive to do full-time, intense, productive work in a remote team.
The process is highly competitive. Canonical matches successful applicants to teams and projects that fit their skills and interests. Closing date: not specified; this is an ongoing graduate intake.
To apply for this job please visit job-boards.greenhouse.io.
