Performance Engineer – Open Source

🕒 April 1

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Canonical

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

Open Source • Cloud • AI

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

• Drive software performance and correctness in a specific project • Collaborate with colleagues and community around the globe • Work on shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, analysis and reporting • Teach, train and develop skills in your team for performance culture and design • Strengthen test capabilities, harnesses and pipelines • Analyze systems and code to understand performance and scalability • Solve problems directly or through influence, leadership and skills development • Review code and technical designs

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics • Demonstrable personal initiatives to measure and improve performance, efficiency and correctness in code • Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation • Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results • Leadership and commitment to skills development and mentorship • Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives • The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues • Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills • Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) • Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability • Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation • Thoughtfulness and self-motivation • Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments • Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long

🏖️ 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