Staff Design Engineer - Cloud Networking UX

Responsibilities

• 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.
• This is an opportunity to shape the future of cloud networking user experience at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. We're looking for an exceptional Staff Design Engineer who can make complex networking infrastructure intuitive, powerful, and delightful for developers and operations teams working in cloud environments.
• As a Staff Design Engineer, you'll define the UX vision for how users interact with networking across our cloud portfolio—from MAAS to MicroCloud and Ubuntu Server networking. You'll work on challenges like visualizing network topologies, designing intuitive configuration interfaces, and creating experiences that make infrastructure manageable at scale.
• This role sits in the design team reporting to the Infrastructure design manager and is expected to have a company-wide impact.
• 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
• Building prototypes and high-fidelity designs using Figma or similar tools
• Mentoring designers and contribute to design culture across Canonical
• Owning one of our working groups to enable Canonical design’s horizontal efforts
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in User Experience, Design, or STEM or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path

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