Senior IoT Linux Engineer at Canonical - Remote EMEA

Remote-First DNA: Canonical has operated as a fully distributed company since 2004, making this one of the most nomad-compatible employers in the tech industry. The role is explicitly remote within the EMEA region, which means your physical base must be somewhere in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa - but within that vast area, you have significant flexibility.

Schedule & Timezone: Working with OEM/ODM partners in Taiwan, China, the EU, and the USA means occasional cross-timezone calls are unavoidable. EMEA placement suggests a roughly UTC±3 sweet spot. Cities like Lisbon (UTC+0/+1), Tallinn (UTC+2), or Tbilisi (UTC+4) all fall comfortably within this range.

Cost of Living Comparison (no salary disclosed):

• Lisbon, Portugal: ~$2,000–$2,800/month comfortable living. Strong digital nomad visa (D8) available for remote workers.
• Tbilisi, Georgia: ~$1,200–$1,800/month. Georgia allows visa-free stays of up to 1 year for most nationalities - very nomad-friendly.
• Tallinn, Estonia: ~$2,500–$3,500/month. Home of the world's first Digital Nomad Visa - ideal for EU-based remote professionals.

Travel Perks: Twice-yearly in-person team sprints (company-covered), Priority Pass lounge access, and travel upgrades for long-haul events are standout perks. The role itself also involves occasional international travel to EU, USA, Taiwan, and China - expect roughly 2–4 trips per year combining company events and partner visits.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very 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 global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

Canonical's OEM Delivery Team works with tier-one OEM, IHV, and ODM customers to pre-load Ubuntu Classic, Ubuntu Core, and bring Ubuntu directly to millions of users. You will have the opportunity to enable cutting edge technology with world leading partners and become the first contributor to the innovation.

We are hiring a Senior Ubuntu Embedded IoT System Engineer to represent Canonical with leading OEMs, ODMs, and silicon partners and to deliver the best user experience of Ubuntu on partner hardware for Robotics, Automotive, SmartNIC, Medical device, Industry gateway and many other products.

In this role, you will use your knowledge of Linux and hardware to improve Ubuntu for millions of users.

We work with the world's most significant silicon companies
- Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Mediatek, Hisilicon, Samsung and more - to optimize Ubuntu on their next-generation chips. We also work with OEMs and ODMs
- Dell, HP, Lenovo, Advantech, ADLink and many more - to ensure that Ubuntu works perfectly on their hardware.

This fast-paced environment requires excellent time management, insightful debugging, critical thinking, problem-solving skills and deep knowledge of the Linux system.

Location:

This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

• Provide software and system engineering services for OEM and ODM customers
• Work closely with partners on platform bring up
• Work with project managers and Field/QA engineers to identify, triage, and fix critical problems
• Work with individual upstream projects to find and apply patches for bugs
• Conduct…