Remote Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget (USD 2,000 per year)

Annual compensation review

Travel opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Maternity/Paternity leave

Job summary

Canonical is hiring a Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage. You will write Python and Go, contribute to distributed storage tooling, and collaborate with a global team across regions. The role involves travel and remote work across EMEA or the Americas.

Applicants should have a CS/ STEM degree, Python expertise, Ceph experience, and a passion for open source. The company supports learning budgets, annual reviews, and generous travel opportunities.

Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python.
• You have experience with Ceph storage.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging.

Responsibilities

• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software.
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them.
• Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators.
• Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage.

Skills

Python

Ceph storage

Linux

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Go

Debian packaging

Public cloud

LXC/LXD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or equivalent

Job description

Canonical is hiring a Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage. You will write Python and Go, contribute to distributed storage tooling, and collaborate with a global team across regions. The role involves travel and remote work across EMEA or the Americas.

Applicants should have a CS/ STEM degree, Python expertise, Ceph experience, and a passion for open source. The company supports learning budgets, annual reviews, and generous travel opportunities.