.Canonical seeks an experienced developer with a proven track record in Python and/or Go. As part of the Observability team, you will develop a cloud-native monitoring stack that composes best-in-class open-source monitoring tools. The stack is opinionated, resilient, and scalable, providing deep insights out of the box. The user experience is polished and seamless for the end-users, and its administrators will enjoy smooth, lightweight Day 1 and Day 2 operations.This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Kubernetes, and Observability. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.The monitoring stack will monitor applications running on a mix of cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenStack, as well as bare-metal, virtual machines and containers. The stack will be capable of monitoring applications and infrastructure irrespective of whether they are operated by Juju, and will leverage multiple data sources at various levels of the architecture, including Juju itself, to contextualize the collected telemetry and insights delivered to the end-users.Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA and Americas regions.What your day will look likeCollaborate proactively with a globally distributed teamWrite, test and document high quality code to create new featuresDebug issues and interact with a vibrant communityReview code produced by other engineersAttend conferences to represent Canonical and the Charmed Observability StackWork from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external eventsWhat we are looking for in youYou love technology, observability and working with brilliant peopleYou value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivatedYou have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degreeYou have a proven understanding of the importance of observability and monitoring for keeping software running smoothlyYou have strong working knowledge of modern monitoring technologies like Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, etc., and how they fit togetherYou are a skilled Python developer, preferably with a track record in open sourceYou have a working knowledge of GoYou have proven, hands-on experience deploying, configuring and using KubernetesYou are comfortable contributing to open source codebases maintained by other companies, you have a history of driving consensus in groups of multiple stakeholders with different interests and getting the resulting work deliveredYou have experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management toolsYou have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux, container images, Debian packaging, snap, distributed systems
