Software Engineer, Cloud - Sustaining Engineering
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Globally remote role
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
- Professional experience as a software engineer required
- Travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- Strong experience with Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, notably Ubuntu, used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. This is a fast-paced engineering role in Linux-based software-defined infrastructure and applications, covering all layers of the stack from bare metal and virtualization to OpenStack and Kubernetes. The role involves dealing with critical issues in the open source stack that require software engineering for upstream fixes. The engineer will work productively at any level of the stack above the kernel in various languages to troubleshoot and drive issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and fixes for Ubuntu and upstream communities.
Responsibilities
- Resolving complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software
- Maintaining a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams
- Participating in upstream communities
- Developing fixes, backporting patches, and working with upstream for inclusion
- Reviewing code produced by other engineers
- Demonstrating good judgement in technical methods and techniques
- Prioritizing work and managing your time effectively against those priorities
- Participating in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
- Maintaining clear, technical and concise communications
- Working from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences
Requirements
- Professional experience as a software engineer
- Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar
- Strong experience with Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies
- Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C, C++ on Linux
- Ability to troubleshoot with gdb and other tools
- Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Nice to have
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You have interest in, and experience with most of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- 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 Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- Location: This is a globally remote role.
- Canonical is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
- Company has 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.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer and fosters a workplace free from discrimination.
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