Senior Juju Software Engineer, Canonical
+ Bonus
Enterprise open source solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise open source solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Bonus
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 professional software delivery using Go
- Hands-on experience developing highly concurrent distributed systems
- Excellent communication skills in the English language, both verbal and written, especially in online environments
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
- Experience with agile software development methodologies
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions
Desirable
- Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience doing development in C, C++, Rust, or other low-level programming languages
- Solid networking background and experience
- Experience in the Linux and open-source software world
- Experience with configuration management software (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, et al.)
- Working knowledge of cloud computing
- Passionate about software quality and testing
- Experience with packaging (Debian, snaps)
- Programming with, and operating, SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project -- even if that is community open source contributions
- Prior experience developing plugins for Terraform
What the job involves
- As a senior software engineer, you'll be an integral part of the team, driving process improvement, assisting the manager in running the team, coaching and developing colleagues with less experience, as well as owning functional areas from design and implementation all the way to support and maintenance
- Juju is the engine behind model-driven operations, providing a means to operate complex software on public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes, and bare-metal
- Combined with the Ops framework, Juju provides a complete solution for applications and infrastructure management
- Many internal and external teams depend on Juju to deliver their products and services - from Canonical Managed Solutions, our OpenStack and cloud delivery teams, to Fortune 500 companies
- Own the design, delivery, and support of features in a highly concurrent, highly distributed system that drives cloud automation and software operations at scale
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Debug issues and interact with upstream communities publicly
- Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
- Coach and develop team members with less experience, actively contributing to building and maintaining a first-class engineering team
- Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events
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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