This role will be based remotely in EMEA or the Americas regions. This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.
Job Overview
Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software‑defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. In this role you will build engineering solutions to scale Ceph and other distributed storage systems in production, working closely with field teams to meet customer needs.
What your day will look like
- 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 defines best practices for authoring high‑quality operators
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
- Develop and maintain software for delivery, operation and life‑cycle management of Ceph storage
What we are looking for in you
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar
- Experience writing modern, maintainable Python
- Experience with Ceph storage
- Love for technology and working with brilliant people
- Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated
- Interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
- Exceptional academic track record from high school and preferably university
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring
- Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
- Experience with open‑source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar
What we offer you
- Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly sprints in person (remote since 2004)
- Personal learning and development budget of $2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events
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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