Software Engineer – Packaging – Optimize Ubuntu Server needed at Canonical

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
  • Language runtimes and toolchains (python, golang, rust, etc)
• 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
• You enjoy switching projects frequently and learning about a wide range of technologies
• Involvement in open source projects in the past a plus