Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage

Summary

Join Canonical as a Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage to contribute to the success of Ubuntu and its partners. As part of Cloud Engineering, you'll build modeling software for OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph. You'll work with a globally distributed team to engineer solutions that scale in production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
• Experience with Ceph storage
• Love technology and working with brilliant people
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Responsibilities

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
• Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar

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 from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events