engineering
Posted Aug 30, 2024Software Engineer - Python - Container Images
at Canonical
Home Based Americas, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images
- Write tools and tests for assessing security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
- Grow our knowledge base and write documentation
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.
- Canonical is building a new generation of Ubuntu-based container images to simplify open-source application deployment across the world.
- In this role, you’ll be building and maintaining an ever-growing portfolio of container images while working with multiple teams, both inside and outside Canonical, to ensure these are of the highest quality and offer a seamless Ubuntu user experience.
- experience with numerous container technologies and open source projects, where your feedback and contributions will be critical to driving widespread container adoption.
- As an engineer, your seniority will be based on your software development background and ability to lead junior team members.
- Work on automated CI/CD processes for building, testing and publishing our container images
- Contribute, both as a user and developer, to the improvement of our Python- and Go-based container-building tools
- experience in collaborative development
- You have worked with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, etc.)
- You are familiar with GitOps principles and workflows
- You master at least one container management/orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- You have experience with Python
- You are experienced with Linux systems administration and package management
- 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 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.
Benefits
- 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
Additional details
- 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.
- These container images will be free to use with long-term security commitments, and engineered for performance, security and usability.
- As with Ubuntu, we will work in the open and welcome community participation.
- 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 thus have the chance to help steer and consolidate this growing team. You’ll gain
- Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical.