Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage

Canonical Group Ltd; México; A distancia; MXN 400,000 - 600,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading open source software provider is seeking a Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage. This remote role requires strong skills in Python and experience with Ceph storage, along with a Bachelor's degree in a STEM field. You will work with a globally distributed team to build and maintain software solutions. The position offers a learning budget, annual compensation reviews, and opportunities to travel to meet colleagues worldwide.

Servicios

Personal learning and development budget

Annual compensation review

Opportunity to travel to new locations

Employee Assistance Programme

Formación

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Responsabilidades

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software.
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage.

Conocimientos

Writing modern, maintainable Python

Experience with Ceph storage

Interest in Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud

Soft skills

Educación

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent

Herramientas

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Debian packaging

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage

Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA

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 enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include 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. This role is for a Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage. As part of Cloud Engineering, you’ll be building modelling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph. You’ll be engineering solutions to scale in production, working with our field teams to ensure we’re meeting the needs of customers adopting cutting-edge technology. 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.

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

Responsibilities

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang 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
• Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage

Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
• You have experience with Ceph storage
• 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 interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional skills

• Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
• Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar

Benefits

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure recognition of outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits that reflect our values and ideals, balancing programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• 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
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm 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 of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. This content has been refined to remove non-job-related form fields and extraneous boilerplate while preserving the core responsibilities and qualifications of the role.