Software Engineer - Packaging

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Summary

Join Canonical's Partner Engineering Team as a globally remote open-source enthusiast. Collaborate within a distributed team to optimize Ubuntu for new silicon technologies, fostering a seamless user experience. Evaluate contributions, shape Ubuntu's future, and collaborate with various communities and customers. Debug open-source and team-maintained code, helping customers integrate apps and optimize applications across diverse platforms. Work with a team to maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and optimized packages. This role requires exceptional academic credentials, a technical degree or equivalent experience, and strong fundamentals in C, C++, and Python. Experience with Linux distribution packaging, open-source maintenance, and package management is also needed. Canonical offers a competitive compensation package, including a performance-driven bonus, personal learning budget, annual reviews, recognition rewards, and various benefits.

Requirements

  • Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
  • Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
  • You love technology and working with brilliant people
  • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
  • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
  • You value building partnerships with a diverse set of internal and external groups
  • Strong fundamentals in C, C++ and Python
  • Experience or interest in learning Linux distribution packaging
  • Experience or Interest in open source maintenance or contribution and licenses
  • Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution

Responsibilities

  • Collaborating proactively within a distributed team
  • Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
  • Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards
  • Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
  • Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers
  • Debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code
  • Helping our our customers to integrate their apps, SDKs, build OS images, optimize applications with Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server
  • Working with a team to maintain Ubuntu, silicon features, and silicon-optimized packages across platforms and technologies such as
  • Servers, HPC and AI systems, IoT devices, PCs, SmartNICs and automotive systems
  • AI stacks
  • Graphics, audio and multimedia stacks
  • Virtualisation and Containers
  • Hardware enablement stacks
  • New architectures, architecture variants and optimized toolchains
  • Package management and dependencies
  • Platform security (secure boot, FDE, Ubuntu Core, Confidential Computing)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with one or more of the following
  • Graphics, audio, or multimedia stacks
  • Virtualization and containers (Docker, OCI, Kubernetes)
  • Hardware enablement for platforms and devices, including SmartNICs, NVMe storage, GPUs, audio components, and sensors
  • Performance optimization
  • Toolchain development and maintenance
  • Networking protocols and technologies (TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/REST)
  • Security best practices
  • IoT and embedded systems, including board-level hardware, SoCs, BMCs, bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, applications, and services

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 recognize outstanding performance
  • In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission
  • We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals
  • We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally
  • 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
  • Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
  • Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

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