Software Engineer - Python and K8s

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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. Our customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders across many sectors. With 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, the company pioneers global distributed collaboration and operates with very few office‑based roles.

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations worldwide, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

Our mission is to reinvent the way companies manage their open source information systems—on public clouds and in their own data centers. To achieve that, we are building a new community around Python opscode for open source applications running on Kubernetes. We aim to move all of Canonical and Ubuntu IS onto this new, open source codebase.

We are confident that we can dramatically improve the experience of running complex business operations—and then help our customers embrace those new techniques and products. Traditionally, IS is an inward‑facing operation; we want to transform our IS team into an extension of the product engineering capability  internal workloads are often the same open source workloads that our customers want to operate.

This team will productize those workloads for real‑time automated operations on Kubernetes.

This role is ideal for software engineers who enjoy Python, have a passion for distributed systems, and an interest in the entire Linux stack—from kernel to networking, virtualization, and containers. It requires rigor in both code and customer interactions. Our engineers are technically astute open source enthusiasts excited about cloud computing and ready to join a global team charged with delivering world‑class services to our customers.

Strong Python development skills and familiarity with Kubernetes are key requirements. You’ll work closely with other teams in Canonical to ensure your products operate reliably, efficiently, and scale to production‑sized workloads for customers adopting cutting‑edge technology. You will participate and be responsible for ensuring sound software architecture and following best practices in software quality, testing, and documentation.

• 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 the 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

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a 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

• Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel…