Software Engineer, Canonical
Ceph & Distributed Storage
Enterprise open source solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise open source solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Canonical's mission is to make open source software available to people everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record of at least 5 years professional software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java or similar
- Experience with open source distributed storage such as Ceph, Gluster, Minio, or similar
- Degree level education in a technology field
- Experience with agile software development methodologies
- Experience of the Linux and free software world
- Working knowledge of cloud computing
- Excellent communications skills in the English language, both verbal and written, especially in online environments such as mailing lists and chat systems
- Ability to effectively interact with a diverse group of people (both technical and non-technical)
- Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule, and to motivate and mentor others to do the same
Desirable
- Python programming language experience
- Technical understanding of complex distributed systems
- Operational and/or development experience with Ceph
- Block and file subsystem experience within the Linux kernel
- Experience with storage performance analysis tools including fio, blktrace, perf, etc
- Delivery of scale-out service solutions
- Experience with private, edge, and/or telco cloud technologies (e.g. OpenStack, StarlingX, Airship, VMWare, HyperV, etc)
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, DC/OS etc)
- Exposure to devops/system administration
- Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project -- even if that is outside work open source contributions
- Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions
What the job involves
- Develop high-quality, extensible and reusable software, primarily in Python
- Interact with customers, users, and field support engineers to resolve problems and define new features
- Display strong technical leadership in feature definition, feature delivery, code review, and backlog management
- Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Canonical originally started as a company to help distribute Ubuntu (an operating system based on Linux). It is now a leader in delivering open source to the world quickly, securely and cost effectively.
With a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system which runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Just some of its partners include Microsoft, HP, Dell, aws, and Intel.
The founder has highlighted that Canonical's biggest challenge has been that demand is bigger than the company’s ability to service it. Originally a not-for-profit, Canonical is now monetising and is planning to go public. It also announced its product Ubuntu has a comprehensive subscription version called Ubuntu Pro, likely to aid monetising efforts.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
18% female employees
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$9.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $9.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Learning and personal professional development budget
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual leave
- Generous parental leave
- Priority Pass for travel
Company values
- Truly distributed: Exceptional, self-motivated, organised and passionate people deserve the freedom to live where they want. Our teams travel regularly to meet colleagues and customers.
- Best in class: We rate top for Linux security. We run more hosts, more workloads and more devices than anybody else, because we strive to do everything insightfully, properly, fairly, and openly
- Enterprise focused: The world is moving to Ubuntu – open source that's faster, cheaper and better. Empower engineers, secure precious data, share knowledge and lead the change
Company HQ
Southwark, London
Founders
Mark Shuttleworth
(CEO)Serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Thawte Consulting (sold to VeriSign for $575m)
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