Linux devices software engineer - snapd Home based - Americas, EMEA

Canonical Group Ltd; Mississippi; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Engineer focusing on Golang and Linux system-level programming. This role is pivotal in enhancing software delivery and device management through innovative solutions. You will work with a talented team, developing robust software that meets the needs of diverse Linux environments. Embrace the opportunity to contribute to open-source projects while enjoying a flexible work-from-home setup and global travel. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic tech landscape, surrounded by passionate professionals who value collaboration and quality.

Benefits

Work from home

Learning and development allowances

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Generous annual leave

Paid maternity leave

Paid paternity leave

Paid sick leave

Priority Pass for travel

Exposure to international business and technology

Qualifications

• Professional experience in software development with Go or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals and system-level programming.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a distributed team to write high-quality code.
• Debug and fix Linux system-level issues efficiently.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to maintainable code practices.

Skills

Golang

Python

C

C++

Linux system-level fundamentals

Software testing

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

STEM or similar degree

Job description

Work on mission-critical Golang code, focused on software delivery, containers, security sandboxing, telemetry and device management, as a software engineer on our SnapD team.

Snaps are next-generation software packaging and delivery for Linux. They are designed for safety, security and robustness, with application-specific confinement of containers optimized for IoT devices, desktops and servers. Our goal is that snaps work across multiple Linux flavors to ensure that publishers have the simplest way to reach the whole Linux world.

This role requires an obsession with quality and performance, for work at the heart of the operating system. It also requires an interest in the software publishing and consumption experience. Applicants should be passionate about open source software development. We value collaboration, peer reviews, good unit/integration testing and maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required. Having previous experience with Golang is very nice to have.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug Linux system level issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Obsess over how to achieve robustness despite unexpected events like power outages
• Work from home with global travel for up to two weeks, twice a year

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills, are thoughtful and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have professional software development experience using Go, Python, C, or C++
• You know Linux system-level fundamentals, e.g. cgroups, namespaces, apparmor
• Commitment to software testing, code reviews and maintainable code

About Canonical

Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu. Our services help businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique tech company - global, remote-first, open source, with 1100 professionals across 70 countries - we want to be the world’s best, not biggest, global software company. With almost every team remote by default, Canonical sets the pace on the 21st-century digital workplace.

• Work from home
• Learning and development allowances
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity, paternity and sick leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Exposure to international business and technology

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.

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