.Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles.
Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
We are hiring a software architect for LXD and MicroCloud.LXD is a modern Golang system container and virtual machine orchestrator widely used on Ubuntu, ChromeOS and other Linux platforms.
LXD engineering spans the entire software stack from low-level kernel work on namespaces, confinement, security, filesystems, VMMs and networking, to the high level management REST API and CLI.
As a software architect, you will drive the architecture, design and evolution of LXD and Canonical MicroCloud which combines LXD with Ceph and OVN.We are looking for an outstanding software architect and coder, with experience in Golang and C, who has demonstrated the leadership qualities needed to rally a team to ship outstanding products.
Knowledge of modern cloud offerings and their underlying technologies is a must.This is an opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact on modern cloud computing technologies.
Canonical offers a fun, fast-paced team environment and a career full of learning and development.Location: This is a home-based position available in EMEA and the Americas