.The role of a Community Engineer at CanonicalThe Ubuntu Community team at Canonical enables community leaders and participants to get things done in the project, coordinating with Canonical teams and ensuring that community processes are efficient and well run. We don't do the work of the community, but we facilitate that work to ensure that energetic and ambitious community members with their own vision of open source can benefit from the work Canonical does and bring their own flavour of Ubuntu into being, to meet the needs and express the interests of their community.This is an exciting opportunity for a technically proficient person who is passionate about open source software, Linux, and sustainable community building.In this role, you will support community initiatives with your technical skills and strong organizational skills. You can get into the trenches with developers to smooth processes and integrate community plans with Canonical plans for maximum impact. You can encourage and facilitate the creation of new technical projects that enhance the community contribution experience, and you can represent community interests to Canonical teams.You will support and engage with volunteer developers in the Ubuntu community, addressing their concerns and helping them to create successful tools. You will help to ensure their success and the overall autonomy and sustainability of the project. This role is likely a good fit for someone with experience in DevOps, Software Development, Testing or QA, package management, container technology. You will definitely need to be technically skilled with Linux.You will provide the content and technical support to ensure the community stays engaged and informed. This will include regular blog and social media posts about community initiatives, events, accomplishments, and collaborative efforts between Canonical and the Ubuntu community.You will communicate effectively with developers and software engineers and represent not only the Ubuntu community but Canonical as a contributor to the wider Linux ecosystem. Our team attends conferences and expos, and talks about technical community projects and their development processes.Location: This is a Globally remote role.What your day will look like:Collaborate proactively with a distributed teamWrite high quality content to promote and support community initiativesDiscuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions to community problemsWork from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external eventsPotential opportunity to travel more if you wishNurture community contributions to UbuntuEngage with the Ubuntu community through AskUbuntu, IRC, social media, conferences, etcRepresent Ubuntu via speaking engagements at events and conferences
