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Truth index
C 65/100
Median time to fill
230 days
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Canonical scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 258 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 230 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the Linux distribution it has published since 2004 and which has become the most widely used operating system on public cloud instances. It earns revenue from support subscriptions, security maintenance of open source packages, and a set of infrastructure products including MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes for containers, MAAS for bare metal provisioning, OpenStack distributions and the Snap packaging system. The company was founded by the South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, who still owns it privately, is headquartered in London, and operates as a fully distributed organisation with staff in dozens of countries.
News
Canonical is speeding up Ubuntu's kernel updates because it's drowning in AI-discovered bugs
AI bug hunting is the new normal.
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Canonical announces Zephyr 26.04 LTS, delivering up to 15 years of support for MCU-grade devices
Canonical announces Zephyr 26.04 LTS, bringing up to 15 years of patching and maintenance to microcontroller devices
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Canonical Evolution of Enterprise Open Source RISC-V at Hot Chips 2026
Canonical gave a talk about the state of enterprise open source with RISC-V at Hot Chips 2026 as we move toward broader adoption
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Canonical Data Mesh: scaling data governance
Scale data governance with Canonical Data Mesh. Build reliable, observable, open-source data platforms from ingestion to consumption
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Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases Into Safe Rust
Canonical is funding research into automated C-to-Rust translation, with AppArmor and snap-confine serving as real-world case studies.
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Ubuntu on Windows outgrowing native installs? Not according to Canonical's Jon Seager
There's some confusion about Ubuntu's popularity on Windows Subsystem for Linux, so I asked Canonical directly.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Canonical over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
54
Postings analysed
72
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
Python31%
Go15%
C++14%
Rust13%
Frameworks & libraries
Keystone Engine1%
Matplotlib1%
Seaborn1%
Databases
PostgreSQL3%
Trino3%
Cloud & platforms
Linux57%
Debian24%
Kubernetes21%
AWS8%
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54 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Products
Snap and Snapcraft
A cross-distribution packaging and update system with its own store. It is used for desktop and internet of things software delivery.
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MAAS
Metal as a Service, which provisions and manages bare metal servers like cloud instances. It underpins private cloud deployments.
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Kubernetes Products
MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes for container orchestration from edge to data centre. They are supported under the same subscriptions.
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Ubuntu Pro
A subscription adding extended security maintenance and compliance tooling. It covers packages beyond the base distribution.
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Ubuntu
The Linux distribution published on a fixed release cadence with long-term support versions. It is the most used operating system on public cloud.
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People
Mark Shuttleworth
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mark Shuttleworth founded the company in 2004 after selling the security firm Thawte and flying to the International Space Station. He funded Ubuntu personally and still owns the company.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
258
6 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
231 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
20% ▼
Finance
20% ▲
Hardware
13% ▼
Legal
13% ▲
QA
7% ▲
Leadership
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Shanghai
Oct 2026
New location: Home
Sep 2026
Added SPSS to stack
Sep 2026
Added LDAP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Apache HTTP Server to stack
Sep 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
7
Countries
8
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
Office Based - London, UK
15 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Finance, Support, Legal
Taipei
Taiwan
Engineering / R&D
Canonical Group Limited, Taiwan Branch
16 open roles 63% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, QA
12F., No. 100, Sec. 3, Minsheng E. Rd., Songshan Dist. Taipei City 105402
Beijing
China
Engineering / R&D
Office Based - Beijing, China
9 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, QA, DevOps
Toronto
Canada
Engineering / R&D
Office Based - Toronto, Canada
2 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for DevOps, Hardware
Tokyo
Japan
Regional office
Office Based - Tokyo, Japan
1 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware
Shanghai
China
Regional office
Office Based - Shanghai, China
1 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Management
No. 1045 Huaihai Middle Road,, Shanghai, Post Code: 200031
Shenzhen
China
1 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware
São Paulo
Brazil
Regional office
Office Based - São Paulo, Brazil
Bratislava
Slovakia
Regional office
Office Based - Bratislava, Slovakia
Austin
United States
Regional office
Office Based - Austin, TX, USA
West
United States
Regional office
Canonical Canada Ltd.
1000 de la Gauchetiere Street West, Montreal (Quebec) H3B 0A2
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