Software Engineer - OpenStack at Canonical

Software Engineer – OpenStack at Canonical

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.

We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors.

We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and OpenStack.
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 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

Location: Remote

Job Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

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 We Offer

Software Engineer – OpenStack at Canonical