Senior Software Engineer - Ubuntu Systems Management

    • Canonical
  • Austin, TX
  • Posted 16 days ago | Updated 1 hour ago

Overview

Remote
On Site
Full Time

Skills

Systems management
Open source
Linux
Web services
Cloud computing
Regulatory Compliance
Operations
Management
Computer hardware
Inventory
Facets
Virtual team
Automated testing
Design
Release management
Collaboration
DevOps
SaaS
Articulate
Accountability
Soft skills
Computer science
Web applications
Python
Flask
Django
Database
PostgreSQL
Software deployment
Leadership
Ubuntu

Job Details

Job Description

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Python, and web services at scale. We are building the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise - on premise and on the public cloud - to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance and operations. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Landscape is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, including package and repository management, health and security monitoring, hardware inventory, and automation. As Landscape software engineer you will be responsible for contributing on a distributed development team participating in all facets of the development process.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.

What you'll do
  • Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
  • Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernize the Landscape codebase
  • Demonstrate your strong commitment to code quality and automated testing
  • Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews
  • Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions
  • Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
  • Assist with release management during each development cycle
  • Collaborate with devops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical's hosted Landscape
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
  • You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python.
  • Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django.
  • Experience with databases, and ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus)
  • You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.

Canonical is proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better platform for our users and customers. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of the world of Ubuntu.

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