Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, known for its platform Ubuntu. The Software Engineer role involves working on Linux, cloud infrastructure, and automation, collaborating with major cloud partners to enhance Ubuntu's capabilities in the cloud.
Responsibilities:
- Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines
- Design, build and integrate new features and enhancements into Ubuntu that will support users of Ubuntu in public clouds
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Write high quality code to create new features
- Design and architect complex new systems and integrations with the clouds
- Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
- Review code produced by other engineers and participate in design discussions
- Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
- Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners
Requirements:
- You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have practical experience with public clouds
- You have interest and experience with at least 3 of the following: containers (docker, kubernetes, etc.), devops automation, open source projects, APIs, Linux systems administration, Python packaging, cloud-based applications
- at least experience in Python software development on Linux