.The role of a Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage at CanonicalAs a software engineer at Canonical, you have a key role in the success of Ubuntu, our partners, customers, and the larger Ubuntu community. Your primary responsibility is to your team - contributing toward objectives, continuously improving, and striving to be a vital part of a healthy, high-performing team. At Canonical, you will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.As part of Cloud Engineering, you'll be building modeling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph. You'll be engineering solutions to scale in production, working with our field teams to ensure we're meeting the needs of customers looking to adopt cutting-edge technology.Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context. Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.Location: This role will be based remotely in EMEA or the Americas regionsWhat your day will look likeWrite high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang softwareCollaborate proactively with a globally distributed teamDebug issues and produce high quality code to fix themContribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutionsDevelop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storageWhat we are looking for in youYou have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degreeYou have experience with writing modern, maintainable PythonYou have experience with Ceph storageYou love technology and working with brilliant peopleYou are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountableYou value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivatedYou have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal eventsAdditional Skills That You Might Also BringExperience operating Ceph clusters in productionExperience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similarWhat we offer youWe consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide
