Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Python / Go - Remote

Overview

We are seeking a software engineer with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems. At Canonical you can build a career and drive the success of those leveraging Canonical’s Ubuntu and Juju to build multi-cloud deployable cloud applications.

In Short

• Create automated testing approaches and infrastructure for validating reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications.
• Enable engineering teams across Canonical to develop software with confidence by making distributed system testing tooling available across the company.
• Enhance continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical’s cloud native products such as Kubeflow.
• Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems.
• Monitor and report on automated testing efforts.
• Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team.

Requirements

• Solid background in modern test processes and strategies.
• Experience with Python or Go development.
• Strong object oriented development skills.
• Ability to develop and ship production grade modern web applications.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub CI.
• Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of Linux system architecture.
• A capacity for complex abstract thinking.
• Capability for 2-4 weeks of international travel per year.

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 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.