Software Engineer - Ceph & Distributed Storage

The role of a Software Engineer Ceph & Distributed Storage at Canonical

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.

Location: This role will be based remotely in EMEA or the Americas regions

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

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 2000 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

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI IoT and the cloud we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed we need to be the best at what we do.

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ Work at Canonical is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently work smarter learn new skills and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience perspectives and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

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