Senior Secure Container Image Engineer (Remote)

Canonical; Mexico; On-site; PHP 7,398,000 - 11,097,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget

Generous leave

Wellness program

Travel opportunities

Team sprints

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a senior software engineer to own the path from upstream source to published Ubuntu-based container images. You will turn open-source software into tested, signed, and maintained artifacts that developers can deploy with confidence.

This globally remote role is fast-paced and multi-disciplinary. You will design and operate CI/CD pipelines, build and maintain hardened images, mentor colleagues, and collaborate across security, platform, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or STEM field.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining container images.
• Experience with Linux package management and release engineering.
• Ability to mentor colleagues and work across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a growing portfolio of high-quality, hardened container images.
• Design and operate automated CI/CD pipelines that build, test, scan, sign, publish, promote, and retire images across environments and architectures.
• Write tooling and tests to assess security compliance and cloud-native compatibility.
• Work closely with community and partners to share container expertise and keep our portfolio current with new features, patches, and applications.
• Collaborate with product security, platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.
• Contribute technical input to the team's decision-making.
• Set the standard for quality, defining image standards that span security, compatibility, performance, size, and developer experience.
• Grow our knowledge base and write about the work we do.

Skills

Bash

Python

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Go

Rust

Job description

Canonical is seeking a senior software engineer to own the path from upstream source to published Ubuntu-based container images. You will turn open-source software into tested, signed, and maintained artifacts that developers can deploy with confidence.

This globally remote role is fast-paced and multi-disciplinary. You will design and operate CI/CD pipelines, build and maintain hardened images, mentor colleagues, and collaborate across security, platform, and infrastructure teams.