About Collabora
What is Collabora?
Collabora is "a leading software consultancy specializing in bringing companies and the Open Source community together." Founded in 2005, the company has been at the forefront of Open Source software development — "helping clients navigate the ever-evolving world of Open Source" whether "writing a line of code or shaping a longer-term strategic software development plan."
The team includes some of the world's most prolific Open Source contributors and maintainers, with engineers working across the Linux kernel, multimedia, graphics, web engines, and system integration. Departments span Delivery, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, People Operations, Systems Administration, and Systems Development.
Where will I work?
Collabora operates with engineers across Europe, the Americas, and Asia — "fully remote — work where you're most productive." The company has its headquarters in Cambridge, England and a satellite office in Montreal, Canada, but most of the team works from their home cities. Salaries are "location-dependent and benchmarked against local market data."
What is the Collabora team like?
Collabora's culture is anchored by six core values: Upstream first (the best solutions benefit everyone) · Transparency (open discussion about technical decisions, business constraints, and project challenges) · Pragmatism (perfect is the enemy of good) · Respect for expertise (engineers make technical decisions) · Collaborative (with the community) · Sustainable pace (marathon, not sprint).
The careers page lists 12 reasons to join Collabora, each with a verbatim employee testimonial — anchored on Open First contributions, autonomy, work-life balance, flexible work, cutting-edge tech, and globally distributed teams. JDs frame the technical career as offering "upstream contributions — your work shapes Linux, not just client products" with paths into principal engineering, subsystem expertise, or technical architecture roles.
Work-Life Balance
Collabora explicitly protects work-life balance through flexible hours ("manage your own schedule"), fully remote with co-working policy support, and no on-call rotations — "no out-of-hours incident response expectations." The vacation policy is location-dependent (33 days in the UK including public holidays). After 5 years continuous service, employees become eligible for a sabbatical / retention of services.
Perks and Benefits
- Holiday policy location-dependent (e.g. 33 days UK including public holidays)
- Sabbatical / retention of services after 5 years continuous service
- Yearly profit-share bonus
- Pension (location-dependent)
- Healthcare (location-dependent)
- Dental coverage (location-dependent)
- Life insurance (3× salary)
- Biannual well-being assessments with a trained mental health specialist
- Office setup budget + co-working policy support
- Conference attendance covered + speaking opportunities encouraged
- Open source time — contribute to projects you care about
- Bi-annual team meetups (Portugal 2023)
- No on-call rotations / no out-of-hours incident response
- Fully remote — engineers across Europe, Americas, and Asia