Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canonical's Ubuntu Engineering Server Team as a Software Engineer and contribute to the future of Ubuntu Server. Collaborate with a global, distributed team to maintain and enhance server packages, fostering a seamless user experience. Evaluate contributions, shape the future of Ubuntu, and collaborate with various communities and customers. This role requires expertise in server workloads, virtualization, containers, package management, and multiple programming languages. Canonical offers a competitive compensation package, including a performance-driven bonus, personal learning budget, annual reviews, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Love technology and working with brilliant people
• Be curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Value soft skills and be passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Have interest or experience in open source maintenance or contributions
• Be able to replay complex workloads and systems. Be able to write detailed test plans and reproducibility steps
• Feel comfortable contributing and debugging many languages such as C/C++, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP
• Have experience in packaging in one or more ecosystems. This could be language specific systems (Python wheels, Rust Crates, Go Modules, or other equivalent) or any distro package format (deb, rpm, NixOS, or other equivalent)
• Have experience using and creating containers and virtual machines
• Have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree (or any higher) or equivalent professional experience (5+ years of professional experience)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively within a distributed team
• Foster a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
• Evaluate contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards
• Play a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
• Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers
• Own the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages
• Maintain Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc)
• Maintain Virtualisation and Containers
• Maintain Package management and dependencies
• Maintain Language runtimes and toolchains
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Benefits

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus
• 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