Software Engineer, Sustaining Engineering

🕒 April 1

🌏 Anywhere in the World

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 38%

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Canonical

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Open Source • Cloud • Artificial Intelligence

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Resolving complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, 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 bug 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

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience as a software engineer • Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar • Strong experience with Linux, and at least one of the following: Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies • Strong development-level experience with at least one of Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux • Ability to troubleshoot with debugging tools like gdb • Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches • An exceptional academic track record • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

🏖️ 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