System Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canonical's Ubuntu Foundations team as a Linux System Engineer and contribute to the core of the Ubuntu system. You will maintain and integrate core network stack components, collaborate with a distributed team, design software-defined networking products, debug issues, and contribute to technical documentation. This role requires a strong academic background, deep Linux networking expertise, proficiency in programming languages like Golang, C/C++, Rust, or Python, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a distributed work environment, a personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Knowledge of networking: architecture, design, and protocols
• Deep understanding and passion for Linux networking, from kernel to user space
• Professional experience with computer networks, including virtual networks, distributed systems as well as understanding of hardware offloading technologies
• Fluency in at least one of Golang, C/C++, Rust or Python
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Responsibilities

• Maintain and integrate core components involved in the network stack of the Ubuntu Distribution
• Discuss design with other team members, upstream projects
• Mentor less senior engineers and participate in code reviews and design reviews
• Work with other teams to ensure architecture decisions improve the overall performance and experience of Ubuntu
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Shape software-define networking products for evolving data centre architectures to meet ever-increasing bandwidth, reliability, security, and interoperability demands
• Write high-quality, well-designed and well-documented software
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed organisation
• Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
• Display technical leadership internally, towards our partners, and in the open source communities
• Influence open-source projects and communities
• Shape innovative product strategies

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in systemd-networkd, NetworkManager, ModemManager, iwd, conman, bluez, iproute2, Open vSwitch, WireGuard and similar software components
• Interest in packaging software for Debian and Ubuntu

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