almost 2 years ago
Responsibilities
- Own the design, delivery, support, and maintenance of features in Juju.
- Debug issues and interact publicly with upstream communities.
- Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed engineering team.
- Coach and develop less-experienced team members.
- Assist the manager in running the team and drive process improvement.
- Own functional areas from design and implementation through support and maintenance.
Requirements
- Proven professional software delivery experience using Go.
- Hands-on experience developing highly concurrent distributed systems.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, particularly in online environments.
- An exceptional academic track record from high school and preferably university.
- Willingness to travel up to four times a year for internal events.
- Helpful additional experience includes Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, C, C++, Rust, networking, Linux, open source, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, cloud computing, software quality and testing, Debian, snaps, SQL and NoSQL databases, Terraform plugin development, and open source contributions.
Benefits
- Globally remote and work-from-home arrangement
- Twice-yearly in-person team sprints
- Global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events
- Personal learning and development budget
- Annual compensation reviews
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Recognition rewards
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu, a widely used Linux operating system for servers, cloud, desktops, and edge/IoT, along with tooling for containers, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and AI. It sells enterprise support, security maintenance, managed services, and certifications to businesses, governments, and hardware makers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in London, the privately held company supplies Ubuntu images and tooling to major public clouds and silicon partners.