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.
We are hiring a C++/Rust Graphics and Windowing System Software Engineer.
We build Mir – a high-performance, high-efficiency technology stack for window managers, display subsystems and solutions built on top of it, like Ubuntu Frame.
Our goal is to enable the whole spectrum of graphics from single-purpose screens through edge devices to full desktop environments.
We also set the pace for graphics enablement across the Ubuntu certified hardware ecosystem.
Our daily drill includes design, development and testing of features as well as working with the community and responding to issues and user inquiries.
Most of the software is written in C++, with support tooling in scripting languages.
We will use Rust as an evolutionary step forward.
Thus candidates are required to have strong.
We're growing the team and looking for new colleagues who share our passion for precision, performance and user experience.
We are hiring on various career levels with a minimum of 2 years industry experience.
We are looking for people who ideally have experience in building window compositing systems or graphics.