Canonical hires graduate software engineers

Canonical is hiring 2025 and 2026 graduate software engineers through a central application that covers engineering teams across the company, according to its careers site. The role is listed as home-based worldwide and says most engineering teams work from home, with teams generally aligned by time zone across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. A recruiter’s post on X circulated the opening this week and highlighted compensation of about 30–35 lakh rupees a year, though Canonical’s own job page does not publish salary figures. The company’s posting frames the role as a broad entry point rather than a single-team vacancy. Canonical says it hires graduates into teams working across open-source products, commercial systems, infrastructure, firmware, desktop software, containers and cloud platforms. The listing says the process is competitive and that successful applicants will be matched to teams and projects based on skills and motivations. ### Which Canonical role is actually open? Canonical’s careers page lists a role titled “Graduate Software Engineer, Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu.” The company describes it as a central application and selection process for new software engineering graduates looking to join any Canonical engineering team. The posting says the company is hiring 2025 and 2026 graduates “into engineering teams around the world.” It also says the role spans work from “the very lowest levels of the Linux system” up to desktop applications, containers, cloud systems and Kubernetes. ### What skills does Canonical say are mandatory? Canonical says candidates need the confidence to deliver high-quality code in at least one of Python, Rust, C/C++, Golang, JavaScript or Java. The same posting says experience with Ubuntu or another Linux distribution is required. The job description also asks for a record of exceeding expectations, strong organization and the ability to meet commitments. Canonical says it wants graduates who are excited by open source and who have produced outstanding academic results. ### How remote is the job? Canonical says most of its engineering teams work from home. The company adds that it tries to align a single team within a single time zone, naming EMEA, APAC and AMER as its main regional groupings. The careers page says team members still meet in person two to four times a year in locations around the world. Canonical describes itself elsewhere on its careers site as a global distributed company with colleagues in more than 75 countries and very few office-based roles. ### What kind of work could a graduate actually land? Canonical says its graduate engineers may work in languages including Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Bash. The company says its teams handle projects ranging from BIOS, boot loaders, firmware, kernels and drivers to desktop applications, packaging, compilers, security, cryptography, performance and documentation. Other current Canonical listings show how that broad intake can map to specific teams. Separate postings on the careers site include Python cloud roles, Linux packaging roles, Go engineering roles and Ubuntu software engineering jobs, all described as home-based. ### Where does the pay figure come from? The 30–35 lakh rupee figure appears in the recruiter post on X that drew attention to the opening. Canonical’s own careers pages reviewed on June 2 do not list compensation for the graduate role. That means applicants can verify the role, location model and skill requirements directly on Canonical’s site, but not the salary range from the company posting itself. The application is live on Canonical’s careers page under the graduate software engineer listing, where the company says it will use the central process to identify suitable teams and projects for candidates.