Linux Software Engineer - Ubuntu for Next-Gen Silicon

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively within a distributed team.
• Foster a software ecosystem with a seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users.
• Evaluate contributions of other engineers to maintain high‐quality software standards.
• Play a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via new ideas and advising on work being done elsewhere.
• Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, upstream projects, and commercially supported customers.
• Debug issues on open source code and team-maintained code.
• Help customers integrate their apps, SDKs, build OS images, and optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server.
• Work with a team to maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon‐optimized packages across platforms and technologies such as servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs and automotive systems; AI stacks; graphics, audio and multimedia stacks; virtualisation and containers; hardware enablement stacks; new architectures, architecture variants and optimized toolchains; package management and dependencies; platform security (secure boot, FDE, Ubuntu Core, confidential computing).
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal events.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path.
• Love technology and working with brilliant people.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• Valuable partnerships with a diverse set of internal and external groups.
• Strong fundamentals in C, C++ and Python.
• Experience or interest in learning Linux distribution packaging.
• Experience or interest in open source maintenance or contribution and licensing.
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution.

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience with one or more of the following:
• Graphics, audio, or multimedia stacks.
• Virtualization and containers (Docker, OCI, Kubernetes).
• Hardware enablement for platforms and devices, including SmartNICs, NVMe storage, GPUs, audio components, and sensors.
• Performance optimization.
• Toolchain development and maintenance.
• Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST).
• Security best practices.
• IoT and embedded systems, including board‐level hardware, SoCs, BMCs, bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, applications, and services.

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice‐yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‐haul company events.