Remote Linux Cloud Engineer – Open Source Sustaining

Meetborderless; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed collaboration across teams

Annual learning budget

Performance-based bonus

Global travel opportunities

Flexible working

Job summary

Canonical in London is hiring a Software Engineer, Sustaining Engineering for a fast-paced Linux-based stack role, spanning bare metal to OpenStack and Kubernetes. You will tackle upstream fixes, backport patches, and collaborate with global teams, contributing to critical open-source infrastructure used by customers and partners.

The role supports remote work globally, with some travel for team meetings and conferences.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a software engineer.
• Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar.
• Strong experience with Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies.
• Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C, C++ on Linux.
• Ability to troubleshoot with gdb and other tools.
• Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches.

Responsibilities

• Resolving complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, or Kubernetes and other open source software.
• Maintaining a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams.
• Participating in upstream communities.
• Developing fixes, backporting patches, and working with upstream for inclusion.
• Reviewing code produced by other engineers.
• Demonstrating good judgement in technical methods and techniques.
• Prioritizing work and managing your time effectively against those priorities.
• Participating in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation.
• Maintaining clear, technical and concise communications.

Skills

Linux

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Python

Go

C

C++

Git

Education

Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar

Tools

Git

Job description

Canonical in London is hiring a Software Engineer, Sustaining Engineering for a fast-paced Linux-based stack role, spanning bare metal to OpenStack and Kubernetes. You will tackle upstream fixes, backport patches, and collaborate with global teams, contributing to critical open-source infrastructure used by customers and partners.

The role supports remote work globally, with some travel for team meetings and conferences.