Developer Relations Engineer

Overview Join to apply for the Developer Relations Engineer role at Canonical . As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical serves millions of developers and supports cloud, IoT and data science projects. We created a new Developer Relations team to engage with open source communities and developer-centric organizations, communicating our vision and products while gathering feedback to shape our offerings. A Developer Relations Engineer is a technical expert, strategist and communicator with deep empathy for developers. This role blends practical engineering skills with diplomacy across organizational boundaries, in both directions. We seek someone curious to improve processes, who can understand user needs and help adapt tools accordingly, staying current with tech trends and providing guidance while fostering innovation. Location: we are building our initial DevRel team in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and American time zones. To improve your chances of success in this application, read our advice on how to get a job at Canonical. What your day will look like take part in team product meetings, contributing insight and expertise from strategy to day-to-day development progress maintain conversations with developer community members wherever they may be found – IRC, social media, product forums, meet-ups and more work with colleagues in other teams to establish commonality and consistent approaches help solve specific technical problems identified by users or colleagues contribute to technical documentation to meet developer users’ needs develop technical articles, presentations or workshops identify new opportunities and directions for improvement in the developer experience present at conferences, meetups or technical events What we are looking for in you A strong candidate: is a programmer or developer with a demonstrable passion for and engagement in open-source software has worked with real-world challenges developing and deploying software using Linux has practical hands-on experience of Linux software packaging (including Snaps, debs, charms, rocks, PIP, containers) understands current software packaging issues and trends in the Linux ecosystem has been a contributor to open-source communities, software and documentation is an engaging, vivacious speaker and presenter can work effectively, tactfully, empathetically and confidently where different perspectives and needs exist builds trust, relationships and confidence is willing to travel globally twice a year for company events, as well as to upstream and partner events Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring previous experience in a developer advocacy or community role in-depth familiarity with Ubuntu and the Canonical ecosystem of products What we offer you Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person – we’ve been remote-first since 2004 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 travel upgrades for long-haul company events 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. Seniority level Entry level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries: Software Development #J-18808-Ljbffr