Software Engineer - Ubuntu Server Optimization for Public Clouds - 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

• Collaborating proactively within a distributed team
• Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
• Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards
• Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities
• Debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code
• Working with the Ubuntu Engineering Server team to maintain and package software
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Requirements

• Love technology and working with brilliant people
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Interest or experience in public cloud operations or architecture
• Interest or experience in open source maintenance or contribution
• Strong fundamentals in Python
• Interest in learning Linux distribution packaging
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution
• Interest in containerization and virtualization

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