Senior Jira Software Engineer
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 16 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Entry level or experienced (inferred from exceptionality standards and academic track record requirement)
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- USD 2,000 per year personal learning and development budget
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
- Founder led, profitable and growing company
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets, with Ubuntu widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company operates with a distributed workforce of 1200+ colleagues in over 80 countries, with minimal office-based roles, and teams meeting twice to four times yearly in person. The role involves managing Atlassian Jira Cloud, including administration, configuration, automation, and integration responsibilities, within the Commercial Systems team which oversees business systems integrations and automation using Python, Go, Airbyte, and Temporal. The position is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Responsibilities
- Manage Atlassian Jira Cloud at Canonical
- Design, document, and implement processes and automation in Jira
- Design, document, and implement integrations between Jira and the data warehouse
- Create analytical dashboards to enable stakeholders make data-driven decisions
- Create learning resources that scale
- Work with engineering, operations, and support teams at a global scale
- Take ownership of critical escalations and resolve them in a timely manner
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Experience with Atlassian Jira and its ecosystem as an administrator
- Understanding of common Jira usage patterns for various technical and non-technical departments
- Experience as a software developer in Python
- Professional written and spoken English
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- A perspective on process architecture
- Experience with complex cross-project automation
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Geographical location, experience, and performance considered in shaping compensation worldwide
Additional details
- Location: This role can be held anywhere in EMEA time zones.
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
- We expect the highest engineering quality, rigorous documentation practices, and effective stakeholder management abilities.
- Our goal is to enable Canonical engineering and business teams to leverage the power of Atlassian Jira, work on challenging assignments, and enable teams to make data-driven decisions.
- We own a wide range of systems including popular SaaS solutions, such as Jira, Salesforce, NetSuite, Greenhouse, GSuite, and a few dozen others.
- To achieve this goal, we leverage Python and Go in combination with open source tools, such as Airbyte and Temporal.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination.
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.
- Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.
- Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
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