Our Mission
Our mission is to reinvent the way companies manage their open source information systems - on public clouds and in their own data centres. Our goal is to build a new community around Python opscode for open source applications running on Kubernetes. We aim to transition all of Canonical and Ubuntu IS onto this new, open source codebase. We strive to dramatically improve the experience of running complex business operations and help our customers embrace these new techniques and products. We envision transforming our IS team into an extension of the product engineering capability at Canonical. This team will productise open source workloads for real-time automated operations on Kubernetes.
Role Description
This role is ideal for software engineers who have a passion for distributed systems, an interest in the entire Linux stack, and enjoy working with Python. The role requires rigor in both code and customer interactions. Strong Python development skills and familiarity with Kubernetes are key requirements. The role entails working closely with other teams in Canonical to ensure products operate reliably, efficiently, and scale to production sized workloads for our customers.
Responsibilities
- Work in Python to design and deliver open source software operations code
- Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
- Learn to think rigorously about application and infrastructure reliability
- Shape high quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure
- Simplify open source operations for our customers and open source community
- Demonstrate sound engineering design and testing principles in your code
- Follow agile software development practices
- Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values
- Work from home with global travel once or twice a year for up to 2 weeks for events
Qualifications
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You are experienced with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations
- You have hands-on experience with at least one public cloud
- You are familiar with Docker and Kubernetes
- You are an experienced Python programmer and enjoy challenging projects
- You understand the importance of reliable software and strive to design and code to that expectation
- You are organized and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software
About Canonical
Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, "the world's best free software platform". Our mission is to realize the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organizations. Our services help individuals and businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu.
- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.