Remote Open-Source Container & VM Engineer

Canonical; Toulouse; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote-first

Learning budget

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Résumé du poste

Canonical is hiring software engineers focused on virtualization and container tech, with opportunities across kernels, VMMs, and cloud infrastructure. You will work on next-generation open source projects using Go, Rust, and C/C++, contributing to security, performance, and reliability.

We offer a remote-first, globally distributed environment with twice-yearly in-person sprints and a generous learning budget. Join a founder-led, profitable, growing team shaping cloud-native compute.

Qualifications

• Academic track record from high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or compelling alternative path.
• Experience with open source virtualization or container tech.
• Experience in kernel or low-level systems.
• Professional written and spoken English.
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred).

Responsabilités

• Design and specify new features, building consensus on approach.
• Engage with upstream communities in your area of expertise.
• Conduct security analysis and reviews to ensure defence in depth.
• Create and monitor performance benchmarks to optimise your product.
• 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.

Connaissances

Go

Rust

C/C++

Open source

Linux knowledge

English proficiency

Formation

Undergraduate CS or STEM

Alternative path accepted

Outils

Docker

KVM/Virtualization

Linux tooling

Description du poste

Canonical is hiring software engineers focused on virtualization and container tech, with opportunities across kernels, VMMs, and cloud infrastructure. You will work on next-generation open source projects using Go, Rust, and C/C++, contributing to security, performance, and reliability.

We offer a remote-first, globally distributed environment with twice-yearly in-person sprints and a generous learning budget. Join a founder-led, profitable, growing team shaping cloud-native compute.