Senior/Staff Engineer - Build & Release Infrastructure

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Senior/Staff Engineer - Build & Release Infrastructure, London

Client: Canonical

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Category: -

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: d70a4c3fe64b

Job Views: 7

Posted: 26.04.2025

Expiry Date: 10.06.2025

Job Description:

Drive the future of collaborative open source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineer with a passion for open source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team.

Launchpad is a platform for managing open source development projects. It includes code hosting and review, bug tracking, package building, translations, and other facilities used by free and open source software developers. It provides essential development and collaboration infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.

Launchpad is a mature project, mainly written in Python (primarily Zope, with some Flask). You'll be striking a balance between keeping our business-critical services running and expanding our feature set: among other things, we are currently working on expanding our package building capabilities, improving our development flows, and modernising our web UI. If you love maintaining large projects, supporting developers, and believe in continuous improvement, you'll fit right in.

Build a rewarding career working with talented people at Canonical, a growing international software company.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate on design, architecture, and feature development for solutions across distributed teams
• Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests
• Debug issues and produce fixes
• Review code from other engineers
• Work from home with global travel 2-4 times a year for events

Who you are

• You love technology, working with talented people, and solving interesting problems
• You are strategic, 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
• You are proficient in delivering robust Python code to production
• You have experience with large web applications, databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modeling
• You are interested or experienced in integration, infrastructure, and operations
• You believe in security at every stage of delivery
• You are familiar with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
• You understand software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages