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Senior/Staff/Principal Engineer
Canonical
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
100% remote
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Key details
- Leading design and architecture of an impactful open source project
- Coding in Golang, Rust, Python, C/C++ or Typescript / React
- Collaborating proactively with a globally distributed team
- Mentoring, developing and advising colleagues in their career progression
- Displaying technical leadership in Canonical and our communities
- Debugging issues and producing high-quality code to fix them
- Contributing to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind
- Working from home with global travel twice annually for company events
- Company mission
- Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source, publishing Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
Primary stack
Core technologies
GoPython (Programming Language)TypeScriptReactDockerKubernetes
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
Requirements & details
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace
- Deep experience with at least one of Go, Rust, Python or C
- Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance
- Excellent communication skills including professional written and spoken English
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
- Nice-to-have: experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
- Nice-to-have: highly concurrent, distributed systems
- Nice-to-have: performance engineering – from kernel to web – benchmarks, optimization
- Nice-to-have: software security – fuzzing, tabletop threat models, analysis, audit
- Nice-to-have: build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation
- Nice-to-have: public clouds or OpenStack
- Nice-to-have: Debian/Ubuntu packaging
- Nice-to-have: systems programming or scalable web services
- Nice-to-have: deep quality and test engineering
- Nice-to-have: web or Flutter front-end experience
- Nice-to-have: REST and gRPC API experience
- Nice-to-have: SQL and NoSQL data store expertise
- Golang, Rust, Python, C/C++, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes
- Go
- Python (Programming Language)
- TypeScript
- React
- Docker
- Kubernetes