Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canonical's Public Cloud team as an Ubuntu Distribution Engineer! Collaborate with a global, distributed team to optimize Ubuntu for public clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP, and others. You will work closely with cloud partners and the Ubuntu Engineering team to ensure technologies such as cloud agents, web servers, databases, and virtualization/containerization stacks are optimized. This role involves maintaining continuous deployment operations, debugging open-source code, and collaborating with various teams and communities. Canonical offers a remote-first work environment with in-person team sprints twice yearly, along with a personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, and other 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
• Value building partnerships with a diverse set of internal and external groups
• Understand basic reproducibility and testing steps. Comfortable setting up test systems in containers or virtual machines. Able to describe issues and steps clearly
• Strong fundamentals in Python
• Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution

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
• Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers
• Debug issues on open source code and team maintained code
• Work with the Ubuntu Engineering Server team to maintain and package software such as: Cloud agents (google guest agent, ec2-hibinit-agent, walinuxagent, etc) Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc)

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest or experience in public cloud operations or architecture
• Interest or experience in open source maintenance or contribution
• Interest in learning Linux distribution packaging
• Interest in containerization and virtualization such as Docker or OCI service containers, LXD system containers, and local virtualization like Virtualbox or QEMU, or Public Clouds

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
• Performance-driven annual bonus