Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage at Canonical

Responsibilities

As a software engineer at Canonical, you have a key role in the success of Ubuntu, our partners, customers, and the larger Ubuntu community. Your primary responsibility is to your team – contributing toward objectives, continuously improving, and striving to be a vital part of a healthy, high-performing team.
At Canonical, you will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
As part of Cloud Engineering, you’ll be building modeling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph.
You’ll be engineering solutions to scale in production, working with our field teams to ensure we’re meeting the needs of customers looking to adopt cutting edge technology.
Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context.
Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.
This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

What your day will look like?

Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage

What we are looking for in you

You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
You have experience with Ceph storage
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 and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional skills that you might also bring:

Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar

Benefits
What we offer you:

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 provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
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!
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
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