Linux Devices Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug Linux system level issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Achieve robustness despite unexpected events like power outages
• Work from home with global travel for up to two weeks, twice a year

Requirements

• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or similar degree
• Professional software development experience using Go, Python, C, or C++
• Linux system-level fundamentals, e.g. cgroups, namespaces, apparmor
• Commitment to software testing, code reviews and maintainable code

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
• Team Member Assistance Program and Wellness Platform
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About the Company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, growing, and a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries.