Key skills
LinuxOpenStackKubernetesPythonGoCC++gdbgitCephQEMU/KVMLXC/LXDPostgresqlMongoDebian packagingdistributed systemssoft skillsPostgreSQLGitCollaboration
About this role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, known for its Ubuntu platform. The Software Engineer, Sustaining Engineering role involves resolving complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, while maintaining close collaboration with various teams and participating in upstream communities.
Responsibilities:
- 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 against those priorities
- 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
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You have interest in, and experience with most of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems