Junior Software Developer - Observability

On-site

Responsibilities

Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.
Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
Write, test and document high quality code to create new features
Review code produced by other engineers

Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.
We are hiring a Junior developer with a proven track record in Python and/or Go.
As part of the Observability team, you will develop a cloud-native monitoring stack that composes best-in-class open-source monitoring tools.
This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Kubernetes, and Observability.
The monitoring stack will monitor applications running on a mix of cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenStack, as well as bare-metal, virtual machines and containers.
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You are a skilled Python developer, preferably with a track record in open source
You have a working knowledge of Go
experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux, container images, Debian packaging, snap, distributed systems. What we offer colleagues
As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.
In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
The stack is opinionated, resilient, and scalable, providing deep insights out of the box. The user
experience is polished and seamless for the end-users, and its administrators will enjoy smooth, lightweight Day 1 and Day 2 operations.
The stack will be capable of monitoring applications and infrastructure irrespective of whether they are operated by Juju, and will leverage multiple data sources at various levels of the architecture, including Juju itself, to contextualize the collected telemetry and insights delivered to the end-users.
You can read more about the project here and here .
Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA and Americas regions The role entails