Python Engineer

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, well-designed and well-tested Python software
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Display technical leadership at Canonical and in our communities
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Contribute to technical documentation
• Work from home with global travel twice a year for company events

Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling alternative path
• Professional written and spoken English
• Ability to travel twice a year for company events up to two weeks each

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding of build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation
• Additional languages, particularly Golang or Rust, C or C++
• Deep quality and test engineering
• Web or Flutter front-end experience
• REST and gRPC API experience
• SQL and NoSQL data store expertise
• Experience with public clouds or OpenStack
• Experience with Debian/Ubuntu packaging
• Experience with systems programming or scalable web services
• Performance engineering and security experience

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 of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004.