What Canonical is hiring right now
Open roles read straight from the applicant tracking system on Canonical's own career page, not from a job board. Counted daily, so the direction is visible as well as the number.
| Open roles | 310 |
| Departments | 20 |
| Countries | 3 |
| Flagged remote by the employer | 3 (1%) |
| Posted in the last 30 days | 9 |
| Median age of an open role | 81 days |
| Roles first seen in the last 14 days | 5 |
| Roles we have seen close | 6 |
Where the hiring sits: Operations (40), Devices Engineering (33), Alliances (30), Charm Engineering (18), Sales (17).
Where the roles sit, as the employer lists them: Home based - Worldwide (93), Home based - EMEA (86), Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA (33), Home Based - Americas (29).
Countries with the most openings, where the listing resolves to a country: United Kingdom (14), Canada (2), Japan (1).
The roles posted most recently
| Role | Where | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Assistant / Corporate Administrator | Home based - EMEA | 2026-10-02 |
| General Counsel (remote) | Home based - EMEA | 2026-10-02 |
| Software Quality Assurance Engineer - Linux, PC, IoT | Office Based - Beijing, China | 2026-10-02 |
| Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems, Python / Go | Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA | 2026-10-01 |
| General Counsel | Home based - EMEA; Office Based - London, UK | 2026-09-24 |
| Engineering Manager - App Stores | Home based - Worldwide | 2026-09-22 |
These are the six most recent of 310, as Canonical published them. The wording is the employer's own; we do not rewrite a job title any more than we rewrite a filing.
Why the count alone says little
A large company always has hundreds of open roles. What carries information is which way that number moves, and which departments it moves in. We record both openings and closures, so a role disappearing from Canonical's careers page is a recorded event rather than a silent absence.
Half of these roles have been open for more than 81 days. A long median is not by itself a sign of trouble - some roles are hard to fill and some boards are simply pruned rarely - but it does mean the headline count says less about this month than it appears to.
Being straight about what this is
Not advice, and not a complete picture. This is one company's own careers page. It says nothing about revenue, headcount or plans, and we do not claim otherwise.
A short observation window. We started recording opens and closes on this set in August 2026, so "what changed" is weeks deep and grows daily. The posting dates above come from the employer and reach back further than our own record.
Refreshed once a night, read from eleven applicant tracking systems. No salary fields and no candidate data: they are not in the source.
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