Software Engineer - Solutions Engineering

Software Engineer - Solutions Engineering

Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

We are looking for a software engineer to join the Solutions Engineering team. The role involves leading and inspiring a regional software engineering team to fulfill open source IT, devops, and infrastructure initiatives across bare metal to containers, with a focus on model-driven operations and infrastructure-as-code.

Overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders across sectors. We are a globally distributed company with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and few office-based roles. Teams meet a few times per year in person to align on strategy and execution.

The Solutions Engineering team collaborates with our managed infrastructure operations team, which runs private OpenStack clouds and Kubernetes clusters for customers worldwide. We develop open source automation in Python to simplify operations for users building on Ubuntu.

What you will do

• Work in Python and Golang to design and deliver open source software operations code
• Work with the Linux stack : kernel, networking, storage, and applications
• Shape high-quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure
• Rethink open source operations for customers and the open source community
• Demonstrate sound engineering design and testing principles in your code
• Follow agile software development practices
• Coach and develop colleagues where you have insights
• Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values
• Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events

Who you are

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About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, we support AI, IoT, and cloud initiatives and recruit on a global basis. We promote excellence and a high standard for everyone who joins the company. Most colleagues have worked from home since our inception in 2004.

Equal opportunity employer

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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