Senior Software Engineer - Linux Engineering at Canonical

Job Summary

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.

As a Linux Engineer you will:

• Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, or Ceph
• Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams
• Participate in upstream communities
• Develop fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion
• Demonstrate good judgement in technical methods and techniques
• Prioritise work and manage your time effectively against those priorities
• Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
• Maintain clear, technical and concise communications
• Travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences

The successful Linux Engineer will have:

• Professional experience as a software engineer is required
• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Strong experience with Linux, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies
• Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux
• Ability to troubleshoot with gdb and other tools
• Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches

What you'll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who you are

• 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