What you'll do
- Collaborate proactively within a distributed team
- Foster a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all 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 the company via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
- Own the maintenance of Server packages. Specifically but not limited to:
- Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc)
- Virtualisation and Containers
- Package management and dependencies
- Language runtimes and toolchains (python, golang, rust, etc)
- Collaborate with other teams in 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
- You enjoy switching projects frequently and learning about a wide range of technologies
- Involvement in open source projects in the past a plus