Remote Job at Canonical Nigeria – 4 Positions

Application is invited from interested and qualified candidate to apply for Remote Job at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ We are recruiting candidates with tech skills and product management skills.

Canonical Nigeria 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.

Applications are invited from interested and qualified candidates to apply for job at Canonical Nigeria.

Accountant

Specifications:

Full Time – Remote Job

Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos

Category:  Tech Jobs

Description:

If you are passionate about the technology industry and want to work for a company that aligns with your interests, we might be the place for you! Canonical, and our world class Ubuntu product, attracts some of the leading talent from around the world.

Come and work with exceptional people and advance your career in Finance! 

Our Finance team is growing and it’s a really exciting time to join the team.

We are looking for bright, motivated people who have a passion for making a difference. You will be seeking an opportunity to drive process improvements and change, input your ideas and truly contribute to a highly productive team. 

We are looking for an exceptional Accountant with IFRS experience to help us ready the business for public market scrutiny through our planned IPO. 

The right candidate will have domain expertise and a passion for IFRS.  

What your day will look like

• Assist in the month end reporting process to deliver timely and accurate information

• Have full responsibility for a part of the ledger processes relevant to your strengths

• Assist with the year end audit process and statutory reporting

• Support the finance team’s wider plans to prepare for an IPO

• Improve the efficiency of financial processes and procedures and monitor compliance

• Share knowledge between team members to ensure cover is available when needed

• Actively develop your own skills to ensure current knowledge of applicable standards and regulations

• Establish strong relationships with key colleagues outside the wider finance team.

• Qualifications and Requirements:

• Exceptional academic track record and subsequent career performance

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CPA, etc.)

• Experience at a large public accounting firm, or public multinational corporate accounting department preferred

• NetSuite or similar enterprise grade systems experience

• Willingness to travel up to four times per year.

ISV Technical Alliance Manager

Specifications:

Full Time – Remote Job

Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos

Category:  Tech Jobs

Description

• Collaborating with product, engineering, alliance and marketing teams at partners to align on open-source strategies.

• Capturing partner requirements, evaluating gaps, and identifying Canonical opportunities.

• Coordinating with marketing and product teams on messaging, content creation, and launch plans.

• Creating partner- and customer-facing materials like reference architectures, joint blueprints, webinars, presentations, videos, and white papers.

• Driving Ubuntu adoption within targeted alliance accounts, advocating its benefits to stakeholders and working with partners on enablement training for their development, delivery, support and commercial teams.

• Influencing alliance partners to build with Canonical technology.

• Up to 25% travel,  including internationally, for internal conferences and to drive partnerships in person.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology and/orEngineering.

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path.

• Experience in software development and system architecture.

• Customer-facing experience in software engineering, product management, business development, technology strategy or similar functions.

• Excellent communication skills across all levels of stakeholders – individual contributors to the C-suite; ability to grasp complex material and synthesize key points.

• Ability to think and work at both strategic and tactical levels.

• Disciplined and self motivated for a remote-first workplace environment.

• Nice-to-have skills and experience:

• Post-graduate Degree in Science, Technology or Engineering field.

• Experience with open source software and open source business models.

• Team leadership, product management or program management experience.

• Understanding of marketing and go-to-market strategy.

• Sector-specific experience in finance, telecommunications, automotive, or public sectors.

• Working knowledge of independent hardware and software vendor go-to-market motions.

Technical Author

Specifications:

Full Time – Remote Job

Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos

Category:  Tech Jobs

Description:

• As a Technical Author you will

• Create, maintain and improve software and other documentation

• Work with your team members, to help them make effective documentation contributions

• Influence the development of Canonical products and services, as an expert user who has important opinions about function and design

• Engage with user communities to ensure that our documentation meets their needs 

• Encourage and support community engagement in and contribution to documentation

• Help standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products

• Collaborate with documentation peers to advance the state of the art in documentation at Canonical

• Challenge and advance documentation understanding and best-practice, as part of a disciplinary team

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Holds a BSc / BA Degree or equivalent

• Is an excellent collaborator and communicator

• Cares deeply about functional written communication

• Is a technical writer with a programmer’s mindset, or a programmer with a record of producing excellent documentation

• Has a record of community engagement, in open-source software, documentation, research or other disciplines

• Is sympathetic to the needs and challenges of open-source software and its communities

• Demonstrates technical curiosity, and is fascinated by software technology and its challenges

• Has demonstrable documentation skills, insight and enthusiasm

• Has experience of software development contexts

• Is familiar with: Linux, working on the command line, Git, documentation markup languages (reStructuredText, MyST)

• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Deep technical domain knowledge

• Open-source community leadership and management

• User-experience, interaction or visual design.

What we offer colleagues

• 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 recognise 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.

• 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

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues

• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Software Engineer, Cloud – Sustaining Engineering

Specifications:

Full Time – Remote Job

Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos

Category:  Tech Jobs

Description:

• Resolving complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software

• Maintaining a close working relationship with Canonical’s field, support and product engineering teams

• Participating in upstream communities

• Developing fixes, backporting patches, and working with upstream for inclusion

• Reviewing code produced by other engineers

• Demonstrating good judgement in technical methods and techniques

• Prioritizing work and managing your time effectively against those priorities

• Participating in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation

• Maintaining clear, technical and concise communications

• Working from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar

• Professional experience as a software engineer 

• Strong experience with Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies

• Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C, C++ on Linux

• Ability to troubleshoot with gdb and other tools

• Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university

• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Nice-to-have skills:

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 interest in, and experience with most of the following: Ubuntu Linux – kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems.

Engineering Director – Commercial Systems

Specifications:

Full Time – Remote Job

Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos

Category:  Tech Jobs

Description:

• The role entails

• Leading multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduates to seniors

• Developing your engineering managers to maintain Canonical culture in their teams

• Developing and evangelize great engineering practices and processes in the teams

• Setting and implementing solid performance management with performance goals and objectives with your direct reports and teams

• Identifying and measuring indicators of team health, and take action where needed

• Being accountable for the product development roadmaps in the teams

• Being an active part of the Commercial Systems leadership team, collaborating with other leaders

• Expanding your teams by hiring great talent

• Collaborating with stakeholders and product users.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Undergraduate Degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

• Proven ability to drive multiple teams or large teams of software engineers to deliver outstanding results

• Engineering experience in at least one of the following areas: Golang, Python, Java, or distributed integrations

• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results

• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills

• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments

• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.

• Nice-to-have skills:

Performance engineering and DevOps/SRE experience

Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles.

Python Engineer

Specifications:

Full Time – Remote Job

Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos

Category:  Tech Jobs

Description:

• Write high-quality, well-designed, and well-tested Python software

• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team

• Display technical leadership at Canonical and in our communities

• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them

• Contribute to technical documentation with the aim of making it the best of its kind

• Work from home with global travel twice a year for company events

Qualifications and Requirements:

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path

• Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations

• Well-organised, self-starting, and able to deliver to schedule

• Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and the community

• Experience writing thoroughly designed, modern, maintainable Python

• Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance

• Professional written and spoken English

• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)

• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability

• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments

• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

• Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Understanding of build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation

• Additional languages, particularly Golang or Rust, C, or C++

• Deep quality and test engineering

• Web or Flutter front-end experience

• REST and gRPC API experience

• SQL and NoSQL data store expertise

• Experience with public clouds or OpenStack

• Experience with Debian/Ubuntu packaging

• Experience with systems programming or scalable web services

• Performance engineering and security experience.

What we offer you

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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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.

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

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues

Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Linux Kernel Engineer

Specifications:

Full Time – Remote Job

Required Qualifications: BA/BSC/HND 

Location: Lagos| Nigeria. See other Jobs in Lagos

Category:  Tech Jobs

Description:

• This is a general track for applications to any team at Canonical that works with the Linux kernel, across all seniority levels.

• Apply here if you are an exceptional software engineer who wants to work on both stable and cutting edge Linux kernels for Ubuntu and its wider ecosystem.

• Canonical has a large and rapidly growing kernel team that underpins Ubuntu and open source more widely across a very wide range of hardware and use cases. We partner with the biggest kernel contributors – the silicon companies – to ensure that their work reaches the widest possible audience as quickly as possible, with a 10 year enterprise security commitment.

• The Canonical Linux Kernel Organization has teams in every time zone.

• We have opportunities for technical leadership, engineering management, and engineering directorships.

• The team is responsible for all supported Ubuntu Linux kernels, on all platforms and architectures from small embedded devices to standard desktop / server systems to large scale cloud environments, mainframes and supercomputers.

• We care most about hardware and virtualization enablement, security, reliability and performance.

• There are a number of areas where we lead upstream, but for the most part we are interested in ensuring production readiness and performance for the latest patchsets, rather than subsystem maintenance or evolution.

Kernel Team Projects

• Kernel Team projects include but are not limited to:

• Ubuntu Linux kernel plan, execution, benchmarking and stress testing.

• Optimised kernels for key silicon and cloud partners.

• Confidential computing and next-generation security primitives.

• Developer platforms such as Raspberry Pi and RISC-V.

• Enabling Ubuntu on a wide range of embedded systems.

• Kernel Livepatch, which delivers critical kernel fixes without rebooting.

• FIPS compliance.

• Real-Time and Low Latency kernel variants and patchsets.

• Virtualisation or abstraction engines.

• Container technology.

• Security with AppArmor, SECCOMP, namespaces and more.

• Networking – in particular performance and security.

• Storage – we are particularly interested in Ceph and DRBD.

Qualifications and Requirements:

We hire candidates of all experience levels from recent university graduates through seasoned industry experts.

We select those who are enthusiastic to work in multiple areas including security mitigation, feature development, patching and test.

You must have outstanding academic results, a background in software engineering, be motivated to work in a distributed team and willing to travel globally twice a year for company engineering events.

Location:

Working from home, worldwide.

We have kernel teams and openings in every time zone and with the notable exception of Taipei, Taiwan, have no offices and therefore no pressure to work from an office.

What your day will look like:

Collaborate regularly and proactively with a globally distributed team.

Work closely with silicon, cloud, or hardware manufacturers.

Diagnose and resolve issues in the kernel.

Take personal responsibility for a flavour of the Ubuntu Linux kernel.

Improve tooling and automation for delivery and test of Ubuntu Linux kernels.

Submit, review, and apply kernel patches.

What we are looking for in you:

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.

• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.

• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to fixed schedules.

• Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community.

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral.

• Significant programming experience in C.

• Solid background with git.

• Broad knowledge of the Linux kernel and kernel subsystems.

• Demonstrated experience with kernel patching and debugging.

• Understanding of Linux kernel upstream processes and release cycle.

• Strong grasp of device drivers, BSP’s, and other low level system engineering.

• Professional written and spoken English.

• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred).

• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.

• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.

• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each.

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring:

Python and Bash scripting.

Prior experience with Ubuntu / Debian / Snap packaging.

Performance engineering and security experience.

What We Offer You

• 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 recognise outstanding performance.

• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.

• 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.

• 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.

• Employee Assistance Programme.

• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.

• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

How to Apply for Remote Job at Canonical Nigeria

Interested and qualified candidates for “Remote Job at Canonical Nigeria” should click the green button below and start their application.

Note

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.

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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