HPC Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

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 1000+ colleagues in 70+ 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.

In Short

• Join the HPC team to deliver an outstanding HPC experience from bare metal to public cloud.
• Focus on Python software development for automation in the HPC sphere.
• Deliver charms that deploy and manage the HPC cluster.
• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python software.
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them.
• Contribute to technical documentation defining best practices.
• Work with technologies like Infiniband, RDMA, CUDA, and MPI.
• Willingness to travel for internal events.
• Opportunity for personal learning and development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or similar degree.
• Experience with writing modern, maintainable Python.
• Interest in Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, and Debian packaging.
• Exceptional academic track record.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Strong soft skills and self-motivation.

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with team sprints.
• 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.
• Opportunities to travel for team events.
• Priority Pass for travel upgrades.