Staff Design Engineer - Cloud Networking UX
Job description
A Staff Design Engineer at Canonical who defines the UX vision and designs interfaces for cloud networking products across the portfolio, from MAAS to MicroCloud and Ubuntu Server networking. The role sits in the design team and is expected to have company-wide impact.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
What you'll do
- Defining and driving the UX strategy for cloud networking products across Canonical's portfolio
- Designing intuitive interfaces for highly complex networking concepts that rethink VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, load balancers, and network observability
- Creating and evolving design systems and patterns that scale across multiple products and platforms
- Conducting user research with DevOps engineers, network administrators, SREs, and cloud architects to understand their workflows, pain points, and mental models
- Building prototypes and high-fidelity designs using Figma or similar tools
- Creating experiences for network troubleshooting, monitoring, and observability
- Working on both GUI and terminal-based user experiences, understanding that our users span from UI to CLI preferences
- Mentoring designers and contribute to design culture across Canonical
- Owning one of our working groups to enable Canonical design's horizontal efforts
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Bachelor's or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- 8+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or interaction design, with a strong portfolio of B2B/enterprise products
- Solid understanding of cloud computing and networking fundamentals, experience designing for developers and operations teams, and their workflows
- Strong information architecture skills and can organize complex systems into clear, navigable structures
- Experienced in user research methodologies and can translate findings into actionable design decisions
- Excellent communication skills and can articulate design rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Self-motivated, organized, and comfortable working in a distributed, remote-first environment
- Knowledge and passion for the intersection of user experience, technology and design
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
- Result-oriented with a drive to finish work and celebrate success
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Your team
Design team
The role sits in the design team reporting to the Infrastructure design manager.
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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About Canonical
A leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets
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. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Mission
Changing the world on a daily basis through open source, as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Founder led and profitable
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Continuous learning and improvement
- Curious, flexible, scientific
- Result-oriented