Canonical
Software Engineer, Cloud - Sustaining Engineering
Employer explicitly allows international or location-independent remote work.
Worldwide
Employer listed it 7 weeks ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 7 weeks ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Worldwide
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Customer Support
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Remote flexibility
Work from anywhere
The employer explicitly allows candidates to work from anywhere in the world, with no stated country restriction.
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- Source listing states candidate location: "Home based - Worldwide"
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About the role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
We are hiring a Software Engineer, Sustaining Engineering for ...
...a fast-paced engineering role in Linux-based software-defined infrastructure and applications, covering all layers of the stack, including bare metal, virtualization (KVM) and containerization (Docker, LXC/LXD), storage (Ceph and Linux filesystems), networking (OVS, OVN and Core networking), up to OpenStack and Kubernetes, and the open source applications running on top of them.
This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and open source to build a career with Canonical and drive success for our customers, community and the company. If you have an affinity for open source development, great communication skills, and a passion for troubleshooting and fixing issues in technology used by millions across the world, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.
Location : This is a globally remote role.
This role deals with critical issues in the open source stack that require software engineering for upstream fixes. Our engineers have to be able to work productively at any level of the stack above the kernel, in a wide range of languages, to understand and address the software issues at hand. Our group is critical to the success of our enterprise customers, partners and Ubuntu itself.
You will help with troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu.
This role entails
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
What we are looking for in you
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
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
- ·What we offer colleagues
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
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from anywhere, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Canonical, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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