System Software Engineer - C / C++ / Rust / Kernel - Linux Container Technology at Canonical

Job Summary

• We are hiring a systems-level C programmer to focus on performance-critical, security-critical, low-level system libraries critical to Linux container capabilities. We are also interested in Rust for system-level programming in Ubuntu and more widely in Canonical.
• The LXD team is responsible for the design, development and evolution of LXD, a modern system container and virtual machine manager that is widely used on Ubuntu, ChromeOS and other Linux platforms.
• LXD components span the entire software stack from low-level kernel features to the upper-level management REST API and CLI.
• This is an opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact on modern cloud computing technologies.
• Canonical offers a fun, fast-paced team environment and a career full of learning and development.

Responsibilities
What you will do:

• Design, implement and document features in low-level system container libraries (LXC and LXCFS)
• Maintain code quality through static analysis, unit and system tests
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel, 2 to 4 weeks/year for internal and external events.

Requirements
Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience with two or more of cloud computing, virtualisation, containers, distributed systems, open-source community.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate and accountable
• You value soft skills and are enterprising, thoughtful and self-motivated
• You have experience with system programming in C on Linux
• You have knowledge or interest in Linux kernel features like namespaces, cgroups, networking or storage.