Containerization & Virtualisation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and specify new features and build consensus on approach
• Engage with upstream communities in your area of expertise
• Conduct security analysis and reviews to ensure defense in depth
• Create and monitor performance benchmarks to optimize products
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM
• Experience with open source virtualization or container technology
• Experience working in the kernel or very low level systems
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Professional written and spoken English
• Ability to travel twice a year for company events

Preferred Qualifications

• Performance engineering experience
• Security engineering experience
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, or C/C++

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. 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 on a daily basis.