Job Openings at Canonical Nigeria

Description

• Work on mission-critical Golang code, focused on software delivery, containers, security sandboxing, telemetry and device management, as a software engineer on our SnapD team.
• Snaps are next-generation software packaging and delivery for Linux. They are designed for safety, security and robustness, with application-specific confinement of containers optimised for IoT devices, desktops and servers. Our goal is that snaps work across multiple Linux flavors to ensure that publishers have the simplest way to reach the whole Linux world.
• This role requires an obsession with quality and performance, for work at the heart of the operating system. It also requires an interest in the software publishing and consumption experience. Applicants should be passionate about open source software development. We value collaboration, peer reviews, good unit/integration testing and maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Golang and Linux as a developer platform is required.

What you’ll Do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Obsess over how to achieve robustness despite unexpected events like power outages
• Work from home with global travel for up to two weeks, twice a year

Requirements
Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills, are thoughtful and self-motivated
• You have professional software development experience using Go, Python, C, or C++
• You know Linux system-level fundamentals,  e.g. cgroups, namespaces, apparmor
• Commitment to software testing, code reviews and maintainable code

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Description

• We are hiring a Golang software engineer to help with the development of additional services to bring LXD’s scalability to the next level. We are looking for developers with experience in REST API design/implementation and a good background in database design and data management/modeling.
• 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.

What you will do

• Design, implement and document REST APIs inside a Go codebase
• Model data, design database schemas and implement data storage in a dqlite (SQL) database
• Integrate with external REST APIs and other external services (logging, monitoring, …)
• 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 are curious, flexible, articulate and accountable
• You value soft skills and are enterprising, thoughtful and self-motivated
• You have experience programming in Go
• You have experience in designing or implementing REST APIs
• You have database and data modeling experience
• You have experience with two or more of: cloud computing, virtualisation, containers, distributed systems, open source community.