Vacancies at Canonical

What you'll do

• Lead a team of remote engineers
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices
• Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who you are

• You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You have experience programming in C and/or Go.

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What you will do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Select, integrate and package best-of-breed tooling with Ubuntu to improve developer and operator experience with Rust
• Write high-quality code to create new features
• 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 a year for internal and external events

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are passionate, curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You are a long-time Linux user
• You have experience or are interested in learning how to package software for Debian and Ubuntu
• You have relevant Rust experience, ideally in the world of cloud-native software and Linux
• You have a Bachelors or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

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What you'll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Work with highly technical team to define and shape the boot architecture of Ubuntu
• Work with teams focused on Ubuntu for server, desktop, IoT and clouds
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks a year for internal and external events

Valued Skills, Approach And Experience

• Experience with early boot technologies, including boot loaders and firmware
• Experience with grub, shim, initrd, initramfs, u-boot and similar software components.
• A love of technology and working with brilliant people
• Motivated, curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• A long-time Linux user with broad interests in the future of Linux
• Experience or interest in learning how to package software for Debian and Ubuntu
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

What Canonical offers:

• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel

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What you'll do

• Develop system daemons with REST APIs in Golang
• Integrate diverse bootloaders and maintain gadget snaps
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code with unit tests to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a 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 a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience with Golang, C/C++, and Shell
• You have a solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
• You have experience or interest in low-level system and security facilities such as:
  • Bootloaders in ARM and X86, such as piboot, uboot, grub-uefi
  • Systemd and units, udev, initrd, graphics
  • OS level firmware daemons and CLI applications
  • Linux security implementations - TPM, FDE, LUKS, HSM, etc.
• You have experience with API design and development - REST/gRPC or similar
• You have personal or professional experience with Linux-capable devices such as Raspberry Pi

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This is an exceptional opportunity for an open source technologist who enjoys solving problems under pressure.

The main functions of this position are to:

• Apply your knowledge of Linux virtualisation using Libvirt/KVM, containers and Kubernetes along with your knowledge of TCP/IP networking to support customised solutions for our customers.
• Act as the technical authority and demonstrate your experience with popular open source software such as PostgreSQL, Corosync/Pacemaker, MongoDB, MySQL and Apache.
• Provide advice on deployed architecture, implementing solutions for complex problems and guiding customers to successful data-centre infrastructure operations
• Communicate regularly with the customer team about ongoing issues

If you have a passion for the latest open source technologies, technical support, cloud-native development, data-centre technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and networking, you will love the Senior Software Support Engineer role at Canonical.

The successful Senior Software Support Engineer will have:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Open source development or scripting experience
• Professional experience with either OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph and/or Ubuntu
• Must be able to speak English fluently
• Excellent communication skills and extensive experience in customer-facing positions
• High motivation, ability to multi-task and follow-up reliably on commitments
• Experience with or willingness to learn new technologies, including LXD, Snaps, MAAS, Juju and Ubuntu
• Ability to travel