Senior Software Engineer – Work From Home (remote)

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to be an integral part of the team, driving process improvement, assisting the manager in running the team, coaching and developing colleagues with less experience, as well as owning functional areas from design and implementation all the way to support and maintenance.

As a senior software engineer, you'll be an integral part of the team, driving process improvement, assisting the manager in running the team, coaching and developing colleagues with less experience, as well as owning functional areas from design and implementation all the way to support and maintenance.

Juju is the engine behind model-driven operations, providing a means to operate complex software on public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes, and bare-metal. Many internal and external teams depend on Juju to deliver their products and services - from Canonical Managed Solutions, our OpenStack and cloud delivery teams, to Fortune 500 companies.

Location : This is a Globally remote role.

Own the design, delivery, and support of features in a highly concurrent, highly distributed system that drives cloud automation and software operations at scale.

Debug issues and interact with upstream communities publicly

Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields

Coach and develop team members with less experience, actively contributing to building and maintaining a first-class engineering team.

Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events

Proven track record of professional software delivery using Go.

Hands-on experience developing highly concurrent distributed systems

Excellent communication skills in the English language, both verbal and written, especially in online environments

An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university

Experience with agile software development methodologies

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

Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)

Experience doing development in C, C++, Rust, or other low-level programming languages.

Solid networking background and experience

Experience in the Linux and open-source software world

Experience with configuration management software (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, et al.)

Working knowledge of cloud computing

Passionate about software quality and testing

Experience with packaging (Debian, snaps)

Programming with, and operating, SQL and NoSQL databases

Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project -- even if that is community open source contributions.

Prior experience developing plugins for Terraform

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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!

Annual compensation review

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others

Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events