In this role, you’ll be developing the tools and technology for building and maintaining this new generation of container images. You’ll be working with multiple teams, both inside and outside Canonical, to ensure we deliver container images with the highest quality whilst maintaining a seamless Ubuntu user experience. You will also be highly involved in the implementation and maintenance of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation around these container images, for which you are expected to demonstrate deep insights into container-based DevOps.
You will be
contributing to fast-moving products like ROCKs (OCI images) and Chisel, and
thus have the chance to help steer and consolidate this new team. You’ll gain
experience with numerous container technologies and participate in exciting and
exploratory tasks, where your feedback will be critical for the decision-making
process. As an engineer, your seniority will be based on your software
development background and ability to lead junior team members.
Come build
a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in
technology at Canonical. This is an exciting opportunity for experienced
software engineers looking for a place to leave their mark, who are passionate
about shaping an open source product with the highest quality, with and for the
community!
Duties & Responsibilities
Build robust, scalable, leading-edge
container images
Work on automated Ci/CD processes for
building, testing and publishing our container images
Write tools and tests for assessing
security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
Work in Python and/or Go to deliver
new functionalities to our container-building tools
Participate in strong engineering
process through code and architectural review
Provide technical feedback for the
team’s decision-making process
Engage with the open-source community
as a subject-matter expert
Grow our knowledge base and write documentation
Work in a collaborative, agile and
globally distributed environment
Mentor and help hiring
Work from home with global travel up
to 15% for internal and external events
Qualifications
You are knowledgeable and passionate
about software development
You are a team player and have
experience in collaborative development
You have worked with CI/CD systems
(e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, etc.)
You have a track record of delivering
timely, high-quality software
You have experience with container
images and containerised operations
You master at least one container
management/orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
You have significant experience with
Python and/or Go
You are experienced with Linux systems
administration and package management
You have strong written and verbal
communication skills to convey technical concepts
You bring clarity to technical and
engineering discussions
You are someone who strongly believes
that sharing is caring, and knowledge is power
Your skills range from those of a
Graduate to a mid-senior Software Engineer
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in
Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree
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