Canonical · 1 day ago
Software Engineer, Cloud - Sustaining Engineering
Latin America
Full-time
Onsite
Mid LevelCanonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They are hiring a Software Engineer for Sustaining Engineering to resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, or Kubernetes, and to maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support, and product engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Resolving complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software
Maintaining a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams
Participating in upstream communities
Developing fixes, backporting patches, and working with upstream for inclusion
Reviewing code produced by other engineers
Demonstrating good judgement in technical methods and techniques
Prioritizing work and managing your time effectively against those priorities
Participating in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
Maintaining clear, technical and concise communications
Working from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences
Qualification
Required
Professional experience as a software engineer
Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar
Strong experience with Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies
Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C, C++ on Linux
Ability to troubleshoot with gdb and other tools
Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches
An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Preferred
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 interest in, and experience with most of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems
Benefits
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
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
Company
Canonical
We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.
Founded in 2004
1001-5000 employees
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