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  • Posted: Apr 4, 2023
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Canonical is a unique tech company - global, remote-first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries - we want to be the world's best, not biggest, global software company.
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    Software Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Build Infrastructure

    About The Job

    Job Summary
    This is an opportunity for a motivated engineering manager with a passion for open source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team.
    As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: 

    • Ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. 
    • We're looking for technical leadership and a solid background in software development, so that you're able to challenge and grow your team members. 
    • You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
    • Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

    What You'll Do:

    • Grow and lead a team of engineers in your region
    • Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
    • Apply sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals
    • Create and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders
    • Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
    • Collaborate proactively with a distributed team and community
    • Lead the ongoing development of Launchpad, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built
    • Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
    • Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
    • Actively engage with the broader leadership team
    • Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

    Who You Are:

    • You have experience leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scale
    • You love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have an outstanding track record of doing so
    • You are knowledgeable and passionate about technology
    • You have experience delivering high quality software
    • You have experience designing and evolving complex distributed systems
    • You have effective written and verbal communication skills
    • You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

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    Software Engineer - App Stores Backend (Remote)

    About The Job

    Summary
    This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

    • If you have a passion for clean APIs, have a bias towards shipping and believe that tests are the key to higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in.
    • We have some exciting challenges ahead including continuing to scale our production architecture, expand the store backend to handle additional package types, and enhance our on-prem offering for IoT and Enterprise solutions.

    What You'll Do:

    • Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
    • Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
    • Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
    • Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
    • Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
    • Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

    Who You Are:

    • You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
    • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
    • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
    • You have a broad technology base but favor backend code and infrastructure.
    • You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python and/or Golang.
    • You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.
    • You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
    • You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.

    What Canonical offers:

    • Work from home
    • Learning and development allowances
    • Competitive Salary
    • Annual compensation review
    • Recognition rewards
    • Generous annual leave
    • Paid maternity, paternity and sick leave
    • Priority Pass for travel
    • Exposure to international business and technology

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    Software Engineer - Ubuntu Build Infrastructure

    About The Job

    Summary
    This is an opportunity for a motivated engineer with a passion for open source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team. Launchpad is a mature project, mainly written in Python (primarily Zope, with some Flask). 

    • You'll be striking a balance between keeping our business-critical services running and expanding our feature set: among other things, we are currently working on expanding our package building capabilities, improving the development flows provided to our users, and modernising our web UI. 
    • If you love keeping large projects well-organised and well-maintained, care about supporting developers, and believe that continuous improvement is the key to innovation, higher velocity, and reliability, you'll fit right in.
    • Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

    What You'll Do:

    • Proactively collaborate within and contribute to design, architecture, and feature-selection for solutions across distributed teams
    • Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests
    • Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes
    • Review code produced by other engineers
    • Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events

    Who You Are:

    • You love technology, working with brilliant people, and solving interesting problems
    • You are a strategic thinker
    • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
    • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
    • You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
    • You have proficiency delivering robust code to production, preferably written in Python.
    • You have experience and enjoy maintaining and improving large and mature web applications.
    • You have experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modelling.
    • You have an interest in, or experience with, integration, infrastructure and operations.
    • You believe that robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery.
    • You have familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
    • You have a solid understanding of the structure of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages.

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