Senior Software Engineer - packaging - optimize Ubuntu Server
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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
Canonical’s Ubuntu Engineering Server Team is looking for open source enthusiasts to help build the distro of the future.
The role entails
- Collaborating proactively within a distributed team
- Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
- Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards.
- Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
- Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers
- Owning the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages.
Specifically but not limited to: - Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc)
- Virtualisation and Containers
- Package management and dependencies
- Language runtimes and toolchains
- Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
What We Are Looking For In You
- 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
- Interest or experience in open source maintenance or contributions
- Able to replay complex workloads and systems.
Able to write detailed test plans and reproducibility steps.
- Feel comfortable contributing and debugging many languages such as C/C++, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP
- Experience in packaging in one or more ecosystems.
- Experience using and creating containers and virtual machines
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree (or any higher) or equivalent professional experience (5+ years of professional experience)
What We Offer Colleagues
- 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
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination.
Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.
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