Software Engineer - Industrial IoT

Canonical; Muscat; Remote; OMR 17,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing international software company is looking for a passionate Software Engineer to develop IoT applications and Edge AI solutions. You will collaborate with a distributed team, contribute to open source software, and focus on designing solutions for constrained devices. Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience in Go or C++ and familiarity with various IoT frameworks. This position allows for remote work with possible global travel.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Work from home

Global travel opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of software development experience.
• Experience with RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging.
• Familiarity with IoT frameworks and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a distributed team.
• Develop and maintain open source IoT applications.
• Debug issues and produce high quality code.
• Contribute to IoT platforms and Edge AI solutions.

Skills

Go

C++

RESTful APIs

Asynchronous messaging protocols

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)

Linux distributions

CI/CD

IoT frameworks

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and IoT. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Your role will be to help us provide easy to deploy, secure, and customizable industrial edge solutions. You will work on designing and implementing applications that run on constrained IoT devices to powerful gateways. Embedded systems and Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges.

In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required.

What you'll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade IoT solutions
• Contribute to the development of IoT platforms
• Contribute to building Edge AI solutions
• Participate in IoT standardisation working group discussions and planning (Connectivity Standards Alliance, Web of Things, etc)
• Work on Matter, the connectivity standard unifying smart homes
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
  
  

Who you are

• Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.
• You have experience working with RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging protocols
• You have interest and experience with a few of the following:
• Containers (docker, kubernetes)
• Linux distributions
• Snap, debian, or RPM packaging
• Shell scripting
• CI/CD (Github Actions, Gitlab CI, etc)
• IoT frameworks and protocols
• Real-time applications
• AIML inference frameworks
• You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
  

Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world's best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.