Canonical is hiring a
Embedded Linux Containers Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Software Engineer on the SnapD team at Canonical, working with Golang code and focusing on software delivery, containers, security sandboxing, telemetry, and device management. The role requires an obsession with quality and performance, collaboration, and professional experience with Go, Linux system-level fundamentals, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Requirements

• Love technology and working with brilliant people
• Be curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Value soft skills, be thoughtful and self-motivated
• Have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Have professional software development experience using Go, Python, C, or C++
• Know Linux system-level fundamentals, e.g. cgroups, namespaces, apparmor
• Commitment to software testing, code reviews and maintainable code

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
• Obsess over how to achieve robustness despite unexpected events like power outages

Benefits

• Work from home
• Learning and development allowances
• Competitive Salary
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity, paternity and sick leave