Ubuntu Core Software Engineer

Bachelor of Technology/Engineering (Automobile)

Nationality: Any Nationality

Vacancy: 1 Vacancy

Job Description

As an Ubuntu Core team member, you will be designing and implementing software that runs on various CPU architectures, such as ARM, RISC-V, and X86. You will work on boot mechanisms, bootloaders, storage partition layout, device trees, kernel, and services.

Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

What you'll do

• Integrate diverse bootloaders and maintain gadget snaps
• Write high-quality code with unit tests to create new features
• Debug Linux system-level issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree
• You have experience with C or Golang, and Shell
• You have a solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
• You have personal or professional experience with Linux-capable devices such as Raspberry Pi
• You have experience or interest in one or more low-level systems and security facilities such as:
• Bootloaders in ARM and X86, such as piboot, uboot, grub-uefi
• Systemd and units, udev, initrd, graphics
• OS level firmware daemons and CLI applications
• Linux security implementations - TPM, FDE, LUKS, HSM, etc.
• You may have experience or knowledge of Yocto