Software Engineer at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical Nigeria – We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it’s the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

Job Position: Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage

Job Location: Remote

Job Responsibilities

1. As a software engineer at Canonical, you have a key role in the success of Ubuntu, our partners, customers, and the larger Ubuntu community. Your primary responsibility is to your team – contributing toward objectives, continuously improving, and striving to be a vital part of a healthy, high-performing team.
2. At Canonical, you will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
3. As part of Cloud Engineering, you’ll be building modeling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph.
4. You’ll be engineering solutions to scale in production, working with our field teams to ensure we’re meeting the needs of customers looking to adopt cutting edge technology.
5. Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context.
6. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.
7. This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

What your day will look like?

1. Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
2. Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
3. Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
4. Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
5. Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
6. Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage

Job Requirements

1. You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
2. You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
3. You have experience with Ceph storage
4. You love technology and working with brilliant people
5. You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
6. You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
7. You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
8.  An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
9.  Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional skills that you might also bring:

1. Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
2. Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar

Benefits
What we offer you:

1. We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
2. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
3. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.
4. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
5. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
6. Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
7. Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
8. Annual compensation review
9. Recognition rewards
10. Annual holiday leave
11. Maternity and paternity leave
12. Employee Assistance Programme
13. Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
14. Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online