Senior/Staff Engineer - Build & Release Infrastructure - Remote

Overview

Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineer with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team.

In Short

• Proactively collaborate within and contribute to design, architecture, and feature-selection for solutions across distributed teams
• Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests
• Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events

Requirements

• You love technology, working with brilliant people, and solving interesting problems
• You are a strategic thinker
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have proficiency delivering robust code to production, preferably written in Python.
• You have experience and enjoy maintaining and improving large and mature web applications.
• You have experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modelling.
• You have an interest in, or experience with, integration, infrastructure and operations.
• You believe that robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery.
• You have familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• You have a solid understanding of the structure of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages.

Benefits

• Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.