Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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 general distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Canonical is looking for exceptional security-focused software engineers to be integrated across product teams. While they also contribute to the product as engineers, their primary focus is to challenge the entire team to think more deeply about security through state-of-the-art practices such as threat modeling, table-top exercises, architecture and design reviews, static analysis tools, and fuzzing, among others.
These roles encompass all aspects of product security, including feature development,



vulnerability response, proactive security, and open source community participation. Each product engineering team at Canonical reserves one or two openings for security-oriented software engineers. We also develop a number of products driven entirely by security needs, such as our AppArmor kernel investments and the Ubuntu Security Guide (USG). As the publisher of Ubuntu, we also handle long-term security response for the entire operating system and open source ecosystem. Apply here if you are an exceptional security-focused software engineer, passionate about open source, and excited by Canonical's products and mission.
It also involves mandatory international travel at least twice a year, typically for one week.
Worldwide, this is a globally remote role
Security roles might tackle any of the following:
Define, implement, and document new security features
Lead security-focused initiatives within a p

📌 Senior Software Security Engineer (España)
🏢 Canonical
📍 España