Software Engineer - OpenStack

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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 in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles.

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.

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.

• 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, Postgresql, 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, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies

• 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.

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; 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.

Entry level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development