Security Engineer - Ubuntu

March 16

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Canonical

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Open Source • Cloud • AI

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

📋 Description

• Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. • The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries. • Hiring a Ubuntu Security Engineer to join an industry-leading software security team to help protect the open source community and Ubuntu users from emerging threats. • Monitor, triage, respond to and document new and existing vulnerabilities in open source software. • Role can include security assessment and code review, internal tooling developments, community engagement, security hardening, and feature development. • International travel several times a year, usually for one week required.

🎯 Requirements

• You have a thorough understanding of the common categories of security vulnerabilities and techniques for fixing them • You are familiar with coordinated disclosure practices • You are familiar with open source development tools and methodologies • You are skilled in one or more of C, Python, go, Rust, Java, Ruby or PHP • You have excellent logic, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills • You can clearly and effectively communicate with the team and Ubuntu community members • Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) • Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability • Appreciative of diversity, polite, and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organization • Thoughtfulness and self-motivation • Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments • Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

🏖️ 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