Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage

About the role

As part of the Cloud Engineering team, you will build modelling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage. You will engineer solutions to scale in production and collaborate with field teams to meet the needs of customers adopting cutting-edge technology. This role requires a passion for software-defined datacenters, distributed systems, and open source.

Responsibilities

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

Required skills

• Python
• Golang
• Ceph
• Distributed systems
• Linux
• Kubernetes
• Public cloud
• OpenStack
• LXC/LXD
• Debian packaging

Nice to have

• Gluster
• Minio
• Mayastor

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar
• Equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Performance-driven annual bonus
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Priority Pass for travel

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm and the publisher of Ubuntu, a platform widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with over 1200 colleagues across 75 countries.