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Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.
We are hiring a Software Engineer for our Open Stack Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Open Stack. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
As a software engineer on the Open Stack Engineering team, you’ll be building Charmed Open Stack and Ceph, a suite of open‑source Python based charms for deploying and managing Open Stack 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 Open Stack 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, Open Stack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, 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, Openv Switch 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
Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world‑class software and services which meet the world’s computing needs. 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.
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
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