Performance Engineer - Open Source - 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

• Drive software performance and correctness in specific projects.
• Collaborate with colleagues and community around the globe.
• Work on shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, analysis, and reporting.
• Teach, train, and develop skills in your team for performance culture and design.
• Strengthen test capabilities, harnesses, and pipelines.
• Analyze systems and code to understand performance and scalability.
• Solve problems directly or through influence, leadership, and skills development.
• Review code and technical designs.

Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics.
• Demonstrable personal initiatives to measure and improve performance, efficiency, and correctness in code.
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation.
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results.
• Leadership and commitment to skills development and mentorship.
• Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives.
• The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues.
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills.
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
• Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation.
• Thoughtfulness and self-motivation.
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.

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.
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.