Software Engineer - OpenStack

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, known for its Ubuntu platform. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their OpenStack Engineering team to build Charmed OpenStack and Ceph, focusing on automating infrastructure as code and collaborating with a distributed team.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Experience with Python
• Passionate about open source software, Linux, and OpenStack
• Ability to collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Ability to write high quality code to create new features
• 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 collaborate on finding good solutions
• Ability to ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
• Willingness to work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Valuing soft skills and being passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
• Experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others
• Experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies