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The role is explicitly restricted to the Americas region ('Location: This role will be based remotely in the Americas region'), which includes the anglophone Caribbean. No work authorization, language, timezone, or residency restrictions are stated. Canonical is a global, distributed employer with no office-based requirement and a strong remote-first culture.
“Home Based - Americas” Geographic scope — Americas / AMER / Western Hemisphere — includes the anglophone Caribbean.
“Location: This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.” Geographic scope — Scope is explicitly limited to Americas, which includes Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, and OECS islands within the Caribbean.
“The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.” Geographic scope — Confirms that Canonical is a genuinely distributed company with no office requirement, supporting eligibility for remote Caribbean-based workers.
“Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events” Work authorization — Travel is optional/periodic and not a hard relocation requirement; no visa sponsorship language present. As an employee role, any visa sponsorship would need to be explicitly required; it is not mentioned.
“Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person” Physical presence — In-person meetings are described as optional team sprints, not a work requirement. No 'must be based in' or commuting distance language.
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Python, and web services at scale. We are building the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise - on premise and on the public cloud - to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance and operations. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
Landscape is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, including package and repository management, health and security monitoring, hardware inventory, and automation. As Landscape software engineer you will be responsible for contributing on a distributed development team participating in all facets of the development process.
Location: This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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