Software Engineer, Packaging, Optimize Ubuntu Server

Summary

Join Canonical, a leading provider of open source software, as a Software Engineer to contribute to the evolution of Ubuntu Server and work with a distributed team in a remote-first environment.

Requirements

• 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 have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree (or any higher)
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Distribution Development; debugging issues in a wide range of software; creation of test environments and reproducibility steps; administration and optimization of complex workloads; coding in Python, Go or Rust; packaging or distributing software; Public clouds like AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud and, IBM Cloud
• You enjoy switching projects frequently and learning about a wide range of technologies

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively within a distributed team
• Foster a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
• Debug issues and facilitate their solution together with upstream projects
• Evaluate contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• 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
• Own the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages. Specifically but not limited to: Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc) Virtualisation and Containers Package management and dependencies Language runtimes and toolchains (python, golang, rust, etc)

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