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CanonicalStaff Engineer, Development Lifecycle
Canonical is hiring a Staff Engineer for Development Lifecycle, a fully remote, full-time role that can be based in Europe, the Middle East, Africa or the…
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Canonical is hiring a Staff Engineer for Development Lifecycle, a fully remote, full-time role that can be based in Europe, the Middle East, Africa or the Americas. The engineer leads an initiative to make Ubuntu suitable for automotive, aerospace, factory robotics and similar tightly regulated fields. The initiative is more than paperwork. It involves investment in workflows, engineering, tooling, analysis, working habits and people. The engineer converts regulatory, compliance and…
Job Description
Canonical is hiring a Staff Engineer for Development Lifecycle, a fully remote, full-time role that can be based in Europe, the Middle East, Africa or the Americas. The engineer leads an initiative to make Ubuntu suitable for automotive, aerospace, factory robotics and similar tightly regulated fields.
The initiative is more than paperwork. It involves investment in workflows, engineering, tooling, analysis, working habits and people. The engineer converts regulatory, compliance and certification requirements into concrete targets, and then into engineering practices that teams take on board. The work involves challenging engineering culture across the company, bringing agile methods into line across projects and groups, and helping define how Canonical works.
The engineer also sets qualification criteria that uphold engineering quality standards, decides how quality should be measured, and works with engineering leaders on continuous improvement. Outside the company, the role builds strategic ties with outside standards bodies and partner organisations, and joins the industrial standards group.
The ideal candidate brings solid experience running engineering and process work in an agile setting, knowledge of quality standards like ISO/IEC 25010 or the ASPICE automotive standard, a record of developing people and teams, and experience leading successful compliance and certification programmes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the drive to make Ubuntu fit for highly regulated, mission-critical sectors
- Translate compliance and certification demands into outcomes and day-to-day engineering practice
- Lead and push engineering culture forward across teams
- Bring agile approaches into alignment across projects and groups
- Help set Canonical's ways of working with engineering leadership
- Establish continuous improvement processes
- Define the qualification criteria that support engineering quality
- Set out how quality will be measured
- Form strategic relationships with outside standards bodies and partner organisations
- Join the industrial standards team and work with company engineering leaders on the vision
Requirements
- Solid engineering and process management experience in agile environments
- Knowledge or certification in software quality standards (for example ISO/IEC 25010 or ASPICE)
- Proven record of developing people and teams
- Track record of leading compliance and certification efforts, including stakeholder management
- Hands-on experience with Linux
Qualifications
- Earlier work as a software developer
- Experience setting product engineering metrics and KPIs
- Sharp critical thinking and problem-solving
Core Skills
Benefits
- Pay depends on location, experience, knowledge and skills; some roles may qualify for bonuses or sales incentives
- Learning allowance of USD 2,000 yearly
- Annual pay review and recognition awards
- Annual leave and parental leave
- Support through an employee assistance scheme
- Chances to meet teammates at sprints and to visit new places
- Priority Pass and upgraded long-haul company travel
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Where can the role be based?
It can be based in Europe, the Middle East, Africa or the Americas, in any of those regions or time zones.
Is the role remote?
Yes. The posting describes a fully remote working environment.
What is the core focus?
Making Ubuntu suitable for automotive, aerospace, factory robotics and similar regulated uses, plus the processes and quality measures behind it.
Is salary stated?
No figure is listed. Base pay depends on location, experience, knowledge and skills, and some roles may include annual bonuses or sales incentives.
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