Software Engineer - OpenStack

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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.

We are hiring a Software Engineer for our Open Stack Engineering team. This role focuses on building Charmed Open Stack and Ceph, a suite of open‑source Python‑based charms for deploying and managing Open Stack and Ceph. You will work in a globally distributed team, automate infrastructure as code, and bring cloud platform technologies to desktops, bare‑metal servers, and other computing environments.

The position requires international travel several times a year.

• 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 Open Stack and Ceph on multiple architectures
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

• 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, Open Stack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Go, C, Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
• You have experience with non‑x86 architectures, including s390, arm
  64, power and others
• You have experience with Open Stack, OVN, Open‑vswitch and other related cloud technologies

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

• Entry level

• Full‑time

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development

Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world‑class software and services. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.