Software Engineer - OpenStack

Canonical; Sherbrooke; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company is seeking a Software Engineer for its OpenStack Engineering team. The role involves writing code, debugging, and collaborating with a distributed team to build Charmed OpenStack and Ceph. Candidates should be passionate about open source and have a strong background in Python and cloud technologies. This position offers flexible working options and international travel opportunities.

Benefits

Learning and Development

Annual Compensation Review

Recognition Rewards

Annual Leave

Priority Pass for travel

Flexible working option

Qualifications

• Experience with Python programming.
• Interest in cloud technologies and distributed systems.
• Experience with non-x86 architectures preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a distributed team.
• Write high quality code to develop new features.
• Debug issues and provide fixes.
• Review code from other engineers.

Skills

Python

Ubuntu Linux

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Ceph

AI/ML

C

Education

Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science or similar

Tools

Debian packaging

PostgreSQL

Mongo

Openvswitch

QEMU/KVM

Job description

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring a Software Engineer for our OpenStack Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and OpenStack. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

As a software engineer on the OpenStack Engineering team, you’ll be building Charmed OpenStack and Ceph, a suite of open source Python‑based charms for deploying and managing OpenStack and Ceph. Your work will bring cloud platform technologies to a wide range of users and computing environments, from desktops to bare metal servers. This role requires a Python software developer with a passion for automating infrastructure as code.

Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software‑defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.

This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

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
• Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks 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 similar degree
• You have experience with Python
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux – kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
• You have experience with non‑x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others
• You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies

What Canonical offers

• Learning and Development
• Annual Compensation Review
• Recognition Rewards
• Annual Leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Flexible working option

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.