Software Engineer - Python - Cloud - graduate level

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. We are hiring a Software Engineer to develop, test and release improvements to the Ubuntu on public clouds, ensuring quality and stability across various environments.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code, with unit and functional tests, to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and investigate to find good solutions
• Work from home, with global travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events

Requirements:

• Excellent Python skills
• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Extensive experience with Python on Linux
• Passionate about the Ubuntu project and its values
• Ability to work with a wide spectrum of end users
• Ability to collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Ability to write high quality code, with unit and functional tests
• Ability to debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Ability to review code produced by other engineers
• Ability to discuss ideas and investigate to find good solutions
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Previous contributions to open source Python projects
• Experience in configuring apt
• Knowledge of deb packaging
• General system administration
• Interest in and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux systems administration, continuous integration, end-system contract management, Debian packaging, working with public or on premise clouds
• Experience engaging with the open source community