The Senior Software Engineer job opportunity is a fast-paced engineering role in Linux-based software-defined infrastructure and applications, covering all layers of the stack, including bare metal, virtualization (KVM) and containerization (Docker/LXC/LXD), storage (Ceph and Linux filesystems), networking (OVS, OVN and Core networking), up to OpenStack and Kubernetes, and the open source applications running on top of them.

What your day will look like

Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes and other open-source software

Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical’s field, support and product engineering teams

Participate in upstream communities

Develop fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion

Review code produced by other engineers

Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques

Prioritize work and manage your time effectively against those priorities

Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation

Maintain clear, technical and concise communications

Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences

What we are looking for in you

Professional experience as a software engineer

Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar

Strong experience with Linux, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies

Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux

Ability to troubleshoot with GDB and other tools

Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches

An exceptional academic track record

Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

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 interest in, and experience with most of the following: Ubuntu Linux – kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems

Location: This is a remote role, we have teams in all time zones.

To apply for this role visit: Senior software developer vacancy