Community Engineer Full-time Job

What your day will look like

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team

Write high quality content to promote and support community initiatives

Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions to community problems

Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Potential opportunity to travel more if you wish

Nurture community contributions to Ubuntu

Engage with the Ubuntu community through AskUbuntu, IRC, social media, conferences, etc

Represent Ubuntu via speaking engagements at events and conferences.

What we are looking for in you

You love technology and working with brilliant people

You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

You have experience with developer tools and open source projects

You have a clear public record of accomplishments (talks, blog posts, GitHub, Twitter, etc)

You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, DevOps, software development, testing and QA, package management, container technology

You can work autonomously and assume full ownership of objectives as needed

You can be flexible with your time and enjoy working with new technology in a fast-paced environment

You are experienced working with open source communities and understand the workflow of volunteer contributors

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

Experience with community management

Experience with Developer advocacy

Experience as a software developer

Examples of contributions to the Ubuntu Community

Experience with contributing to open source projects

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the worlds most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.