OpenStack & Ceph Software Engineer (Python) - Remote

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning and Development

Annual Compensation Review

Recognition Rewards

Priority Pass for travel

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a software engineer for the OpenStack Engineering team to build Charmed OpenStack and Ceph. The role focuses on Python-based charms, automation, and infrastructure as code, with a global, remote-friendly setup.

You will collaborate with a distributed team, write features, review code, and travel 2–4 weeks per year for events, contributing to OpenStack and Ceph across architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• You have experience with Python.
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux—kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services.
• You have experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others.
• You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

OpenStack

Ceph

Kubernetes

Go

C

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, STEM or equivalent

Tools

Docker

QEMU/KVM

LXC/LXD

OpenStack

Ceph

Job description

Canonical is seeking a software engineer for the OpenStack Engineering team to build Charmed OpenStack and Ceph. The role focuses on Python-based charms, automation, and infrastructure as code, with a global, remote-friendly setup.

You will collaborate with a distributed team, write features, review code, and travel 2–4 weeks per year for events, contributing to OpenStack and Ceph across architectures.