Performance Engineer - Open Source
Canonical · Engineering · 20d ago
Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
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Who can apply
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Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
“We have teams in every time zone, and can accommodate applications from almost any country.”
Over 1,000 colleagues across 70+ countries covering every time zone.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- Colleagues gather in person two to four times per year for company sprints.
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About the role
As a Performance Engineer at Canonical, you will embed with product teams or join the central performance engineering group to improve software correctness, benchmarking, and execution speed from the kernel to web applications. You will establish measurement harnesses, evaluate runtime and compiler-level behaviors, and foster a performance-minded engineering culture across Ubuntu and its ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Drive software performance, efficiency, and correctness across assigned product areas
- Build and improve shared tools and frameworks for performance measurement, analysis, and reporting
- Strengthen automated test capabilities, harnesses, and benchmarking pipelines
- Analyze low-level systems and application code to identify bottlenecks and scalability limits
- Review technical designs and mentor engineering teams on performance practices
What you bring
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics with strong academic credentials
- Demonstrable personal or professional initiatives to measure and optimize code performance
- Experience with Linux environments (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Professional written and spoken English proficiency
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for up to two weeks for company events
About Canonical
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, providing open source software and enterprise operating systems used globally in cloud, AI, and IoT environments. It operates as a fully distributed, global-first organization with staff across more than 70 countries.
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