Senior Software Engineer – Linux Engineering

Job Summary

This role deals with critical issues in the open source stack that require software engineering for upstream fixes. Our engineers have to be able to work productively at any level of the stack above the kernel, in a wide range of languages, to understand and address the software issues at hand. Our group is critical to the success of our enterprise customers, partners and Ubuntu itself.

You will help with troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu.

As a Linux Engineer you will:

Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, or Ceph
Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical’s field, support and product engineering teams
Participate in upstream communities
Develop fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion
Demonstrate good judgement in technical methods and techniques
Prioritise work and manage your time effectively against those priorities
Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation
Maintain clear, technical and concise communications
Travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences

The successful Linux Engineer will have:

Professional experience as a software engineer is required
Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
Strong experience with Linux, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies
Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux
Ability to troubleshoot with gdb and other tools
Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches

What you’ll do

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
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 per year for internal and external events

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 interest in, and experience with most of the following: Ubuntu Linux – kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, distributed systems

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boards.greenhouse.io