Senior Engineer

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Canonical

πŸ“Remote - United States

Job highlights

Summary

Join Canonical as a Senior Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and evolution of high-impact open source projects, collaborate with a globally distributed team, mentor colleagues, and contribute to technical documentation.

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
  • Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
  • Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace
  • Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
  • Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
  • Deep experience with at least one of Go, Rust, Python or C
  • Subject matter expertise in your engineering domain
  • Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance
  • Professional written and spoken English
  • Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
  • Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and architecture of an impactful open source project
  • Code in Golang, Rust, Python, C/C++ or Typescript / React
  • Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
  • Mentor, develop and advise colleagues in their career progression
  • Display technical leadership in Canonical and our communities
  • Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
  • Contribute to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind

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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