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Software Engineer – Packaging – Optimize Ubuntu Server at Canonical, Nairobi, Kenya

Canonical

Software Engineer – Packaging – Optimize Ubuntu Server at Canonical, Nairobi, Kenya

Canonical

Full time Job

Date Posted: August 15, 2024

Application deadline:

Expired on: August 22, 2024 5:00pm

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Job description

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. If you’re interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.

What you’ll do

  • Collaborate proactively within a distributed team
  • Foster a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
  • Debug issues and facilitate their solution together with upstream projects
  • Evaluate contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards.
  • Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
  • Play a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both – new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
  • Own the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages. Specifically but not limited to:
  • Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc)
  • Virtualisation and Containers
  • Package management and dependencies
  • Language runtimes and toolchains (python, golang, rust, etc)
  • Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers

Who you are

  • You love technology and working with brilliant people
  • 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 (or any higher)
  • You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Distribution Development; debugging issues in a wide range of software; creation of test environments and reproducibility steps; administration and optimization of complex workloads; coding in Python, Go or Rust;  packaging or distributing software; Public clouds like AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud and, IBM Cloud
  • You enjoy switching projects frequently and learning about a wide range of technologies
  • Involvement in open source projects in the past a plus

Application deadline:

Expired on: August 22, 2024

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