Job Opportunities at Canonical

• As a software engineer on the OpenStack Engineering team, you’ll be building Charmed OpenStack and Ceph, a suite of open source Python based charms for deploying and managing OpenStack and Ceph. Your work will bring cloud platform technologies to a wide range of users and computing environments, from desktops to bare metal servers. This role requires a python software developer with a passion for automating infrastructure as code.
• Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context.  Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations. 

This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• 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
• Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks 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 Python
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following:Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
• You have experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others
• You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies

What Canonical Offers

• Learning and Development
• Annual Compensation Review
• Recognition Rewards
• Annual Leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Flexible working option

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• As a Partner Engineering Manager you will lead an engineering team focused on some of these platforms. You will manage technical relationships with our key silicon partners to ensure timely delivery of agreed project goals, and collaborate with internal teams to deliver targeted results. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering, with a hands-on approach, are necessary prerequisites for this role.

In this role, you will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop talented engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

What you’ll do

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
• Represent your team to partners, product stakeholders and customers 
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed organisation
• Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
• Implement disciplined engineering processes
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
• Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
• Collaborate with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
• Design and integrate new features and platform optimisations

What we’re looking for in you

• Experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
• Experience working with Python, C, C++
• Experience with IoT / Embedded devices from boot loaders and BSP enablement including hardware accelerators
• Experience managing software engineers with a track record of planning, delivery and quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
• Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to ensure your team delivers to schedule
• Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
• Experience working with customers, going beyond resolving their technical issues, to interpreting their business challenges and effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
• High-quality, well-designed and well-documented software experience
• Builds trust, relationships and confidence
• Solid experience working in an agile development environment
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Additional skills we value

• Experience working with open source communities and licenses
• Experience with server technologies, including UEFI firmware, GPU computing, RDMA/Infiniband and virtualization stacks (kvm, qemu, libvirt)
• Experience with graphics stacks
• Experience with open source networking technologies (eBPF, OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DPDK, SPDK, etc)
• Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes 
• Understanding of security best practices and Secure Software Development Lifecycles
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD automation platforms such as GitHub Actions
• Experience with performance benchmarking and profiling