Jobs at Canonical

What your day will look like

• You will lead a team building scalable data solutions for Kubernetes and cloud machines
• You will hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback, and lead your team by example
• You will demonstrate sound engineering skill by directly contributing code when needed
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Ensure that your team delivers excellent products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with the company’s values.
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
• Work from home with global travel twice yearly, for internal events of one or two weeks duration

What we are looking for in you

• A software engineering background, preferably with Python and Golang experience
• Experience running in production and at scale, preferably databases, preferably NoSQL
• Excellent judgement about people - their motivations, abilities, developmental needs, and prospects for success
• Proven ability to build high-quality, open-source software
• Proven to drive good engineering practices around performance and quality
• An open-minded attitude to new technologies and the drive to push the boundaries of what is possible
• The ambition to build products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere
• Love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Specialist knowledge in one or more of MongoDB, OpenSearch, and Redis
• Prior experience working with open source and a will to build products with the community

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What Your Day Will Look Like

• Working with stakeholders and cross-teams in analysing instructional design requests to determine technical resource requirements and project needs
• Creating relevant, engaging, accurate instructional, assessment, and supporting content based on blueprints, JTA surveys, item writing panels, SME guidance, and industry best practices
• Act as internal Subject-Matter Expert (SME) for Linux and data centre products, verifying items and instruction accuracy
• Determine exam delivery platform specifications required per exam
• Working with technical vendors and internal teams to manage porting and transferring of content and user data in various internal and vendor-based systems, including GitHub repositories and JIRA

What We Are Looking For In You

• An expert in Linux, preferrably Ubuntu or Debian.
• Effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams, vendors, and with internal stakeholders to ensure resources and needs align
• Relevant, engaging and accurate instructional design and assessment
• Industry best practices of exam blueprinting and job task analysis
• Strong initiative and leadership skills, Agile experience, and security and privacy assessment
• User-friendly, accessible methods of conveying highly technical information that is relevant, appropriately challenging, and offers the highest quality user experience.
• Experience with GitHub repositories,CRMs, and JIRA
• Curiosity and the drive to learn highly complex technologies rapidly and autonomously in addition to working with SMEs.