Remote Linux & Open Source SRE Engineer

Canonical; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a senior Linux-focused engineer to diagnose and fix complex issues across the stack, from kernel interfaces to cloud-native platforms like OpenStack and Kubernetes. You will collaborate with global teams and contribute to upstream projects while supporting Ubuntu users and enterprise customers.

This globally remote role emphasizes deep troubleshooting, strong communication, and the ability to travel for team events.

Qualifications

• Professional experience troubleshooting advanced Linux issues.
• Background in Computer Science, STEM or similar.
• Exceptionally strong experience with either Linux, LXD, OpenStack, Ceph or Kubernetes.
• Strong debugging experience with Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux.
• Ability to troubleshoot with gdb, pdb, tcpdump or other tools.
• Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches.
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events.

Responsibilities

• Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, OpenStack, Ceph and/or Kubernetes.
• Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams.
• Participate in upstream communities.
• Debug issues, propose workarounds, liaise with Software Engineers on producing a patch.
• Demonstrate good judgment in technical methods and techniques.
• Prioritize work and manage your time effectively against priorities.
• Participate in team activities to improve processes, tools, and documentation.
• Maintain clear, technical and concise communications.
• Participate in a regular weekend working rotation.
• Provide subject matter expertise as the final point of escalation on operational issues.
• Work from home and travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Ceph

Python

Go

C/C++

GDB

Git

Education

CS/STEM degree

Tools

Git

GDB

tcpdump

Job description

Canonical is seeking a senior Linux-focused engineer to diagnose and fix complex issues across the stack, from kernel interfaces to cloud-native platforms like OpenStack and Kubernetes. You will collaborate with global teams and contribute to upstream projects while supporting Ubuntu users and enterprise customers.

This globally remote role emphasizes deep troubleshooting, strong communication, and the ability to travel for team events.