Software Engineer, Cloud - Sustaining Engineering - 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 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.

In Short

• 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
• 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

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