Canonical is hiring a
Rust Engineering Lead, Remote - Worldwide
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Rust Engineering Lead
🏢 Canonical
💵 ~$95k-$120k
📍Worldwide
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Summary
The job posting is for Rust Engineering Lead positions at Canonical. The roles involve driving the adoption of Rust into various Canonical offerings, with a focus on Ubuntu. Candidates should have an exceptional academic track record, undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs, drive, organization skills, ability to deliver to schedule, appreciation for diversity, professional manner, excellent English, experience designing and writing high-quality Rust software on Linux, experience with Linux at the system level, and passion for Linux.
Requirements
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- For more senior roles, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Experience designing and writing high-quality Rust software on Linux
- Experience with and passion for Linux at the system level
- Professional written and spoken English
- The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Responsibilities
- Design and implement well-tested and well-documented software in Rust
- Advocate for Rust adoption in Canonical and upstream projects
- Identify projects and codebases that could be prioritised for Rust adoption
- Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
- Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
- Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications
- Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
- In some cases, deploy and operate services developed by the team
- Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing for Ubuntu
- Experience with LXD, MicroK8s, SnapD, IoT, Juju, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Pro
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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