Senior Software Engineer (Python / Go / Kubernetes) at Canonical

Summary

• Canonical aims to deliver the world's best open source portfolio of integrated, secure and reliable software to the telecommunications industry.
• The team is seeking an experienced engineer with significant professional experience in Python and Go.
• We're building software operators that can be deployed on bare-metal, public cloud, private cloud and Kubernetes. 
• Help the growing engineering team at Canonical bring the cutting edge of open source software into the telecommunications sector.
• As a senior engineer on the team, you'll bring significant software engineering experience, public cloud and Kubernetes experience and a keen eye for software design and architecture.
• You will be involved in all the aspects of the software development process: you will design software, write high-quality code and tests, provide insightful code reviews, write documentation and help to troubleshoot issues.
• This more senior role will also entail mentoring other members of the team and being an advocate for the team’s efforts inside and outside of the company.
• In addition to the engineering behind the project itself, you'll have the chance to work with industry-leading teams inside Canonical, ensuring your work is backed by rock-solid data stores, and highly observable using our Kubernetes-based Observability stack. 

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You have significant software engineering experience with Python or Go
• You have experience deploying software in various environments like Linux and Kubernetes
• You have experience performing the various life-cycle activities of software (like scaling, upgrading and migrating)
• You have experience with infrastructure automation using tools like Juju, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• You relish the opportunity to work for one of the pioneering firms in open source
• You're able to travel for 2-4 weeks per year.