HPC Software Engineer

Canonical; Regina; Remote; CAD 112,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading open source software firm is seeking a Software Engineer to join its HPC team. This position involves writing high-quality Python software, collaborating with a global team, and contributing to documentation. Ideal candidates should have a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and experience with modern Python programming. The role offers a remote work environment and benefits such as travel opportunities and a personal learning budget.

Benefits

Personal learning and development budget

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel

Priority Pass for travel upgrades

Qualifications

• Experience writing modern, maintainable Python.
• Exceptional academic track record preferred.
• Willingness to travel up to four times a year for internal events.

Responsibilities

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python software.
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them.
• Contribute to technical documentation that defines best practices.

Skills

Modern Python programming

Collaboration skills

Curiosity and flexibility

Interest in Linux

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience with Public cloud

Experience with OpenStack

Experience with LXC/LXD

Experience with Go

Experience in Debian packaging

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Job description

Company Overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. With 1,000+ colleagues in 70+ countries, Canonical is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, operating with a remote‑first culture. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person at interesting locations around the world.

HPC Team

HPC is an important and technically challenging compute domain, demanding precision, efficiency and automation. We are looking for a software engineer to join our HPC team and deliver an outstanding HPC experience—from bare metal to public cloud—as part of the broader Ubuntu platform. The heart of the effort is Python software development for automation of key HPC software and system tools.

Responsibilities

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python software.
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them.
• Contribute to technical documentation that defines best practices for authoring high quality operators.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Experience writing modern, maintainable Python.
• Love technology and working with brilliant people.
• Curious, flexible, articulate and accountable.
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful and self‑motivated.
• Interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging.
• Exceptional academic track record from high school and preferably university.
• Willingness to travel up to four times a year for internal events.

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience operating HPC clusters in production.
• Experiences with Infiniband, RDMA, CUDA, MPI, Slurm, Lustre, and/or Singularity.

Location

Location: This role will be based remotely in EMEA or the Americas regions.

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others.
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events.

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu—one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud—we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence—in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.

Equal Opportunity

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.