Software Engineer - Solutions Engineering

About the role

The Solutions Engineering team at Canonical works in close collaboration with our managed infrastructure operations team, which runs many private OpenStack clouds and Kubernetes clusters for customers around the world. This role is ideal for software engineers who want to work in a global team, have a passion for distributed systems and cloud computing, and an interest in the entire Linux stack - from kernel to networking to virtualization and containers.

Responsibilities

• Work in Python and Golang to design and deliver open source software operations code
• Shape high quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure
• Rethink open source operations for our customers and 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 the company values

Requirements

• You are a passionate Python developer
• You are organised and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software
• You understand the importance of reliable operations in an agile world
• You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies
• You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking

Qualifications

• You are organised and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software
• You understand the importance of reliable operations in an agile world
• You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies
• You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking

Skills

• You are a lifelong learner

Benefits

• Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events

Pay

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.

Schedule

We offer a flexible schedule to accommodate remote work and global travel.