Software Engineer - packaging - optimize Ubuntu Server

This is an exciting opportunity for you, a software engineer passionate about open source software. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company and help us to bring free software to the widest audience.

Ubuntu Server is a platform that enables amazing technology the whole world over, and is the #1 operating system in the public clouds. Applicants to this role will have the opportunity to help with everything that goes into evolving Ubuntu.  You will get to work with our experienced team and have the benefits of learning and growing alongside the best engineers in the business. 

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively within a distributed team
• Foster a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
• Debug issues and facilitate their solution together with upstream projects
• Evaluate contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards.
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• Play a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
• Own the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages. Specifically but not limited to:
• Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc)
• Virtualisation and Containers
• Package management and dependencies
• Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers

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 (or any higher)
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Distribution Development; debugging issues in a wide range of software; creation of test environments and reproducibility steps; administration and optimization of complex workloads; coding in Python, Go or Rust;  packaging or distributing software; Public clouds like AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud and, IBM Cloud
• Involvement in open source projects in the past a plus

Canonical is proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better platform for our users and customers. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of the world of Ubuntu.