Vacancies at Canonical

What your day will look like

• Maintain the NVidia graphics drivers and package new releases
• Take personal responsibility for the delivery of graphics drivers
• Patch the kernel driver to work against the latest Ubuntu kernel
• Enhance and maintain Ubuntu's additions to the NVidia settings panel
• Maintain Ubuntu's tools for hardware detection and driver installation
• Diagnose and resolve issues reported by customers and the community
• Collaborate regularly and proactively with a globally distributed team
• Work closely with external silicon, cloud, or hardware manufacturer delivery teams on bleeding edge platforms

What we are looking for in you

• Well-organized, self-starting and able to deliver to fixed schedules
• Demonstrated ability to present oneself in a professional manner when interacting with colleagues, business partners, and the open source community
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral
• Programming experience in C, with Python and Bash scripting
• Solid background with git
• Knowledge of the Linux kernel and kernel subsystems would be a plus
• Demonstrated experience with kernel patching and debugging is also highly regarded
• Prior experience with Ubuntu/Debian/Snap packaging would be highly regarded

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What your day will look like

• Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• With your team, build clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
• Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open-source community and commercial partners 

What we are looking for in you

• Good experience of leading modern, agile software development practices
• Experience of forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Demonstrative experience of being a role model for sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
• You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You are focused on success and the timely delivery of high-quality software
• You value and nurture great team culture and spirit
• You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
• Software development experience in Python (experience in Golang in addition to that would be a big plus)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Practical experience with Linux system administration