Software Engineer – Ubuntu Server, Virtualization and Containerization at Canonical

Job Description

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. If you’re interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.

What you’ll do

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team Write high quality code to create new features Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them Review code produced by other engineers Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events Become involved in the planning of new Ubuntu features, both new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere Assist in the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages. Specifically but not limited to: Virtualisation (qemu, kvm, libvirt, …)Containers (runc, containerd, docker, …) Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers Collaborate and work with our partners to make Ubuntu the best experience in the cloud

Who you are

You love technology and working with brilliant people You have interest and experience with Container runtimes or Hipervisor software stacks (or both) You have interest and experience in packaging (Already knowing .deb or snap packaging is a plus) You are curious, 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 Involvement in open source projects or maintaining or participating distributed software in the past a plus Bonus: if you are familiar with an hypervisor ecosystem using rust-vmm or even better being part of such a community.