.**Summary**:This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and distributed systems. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.If you love solving interesting technical challenges in elegant, high-performance ways, come join our globally-distributed team of software engineers in building the future of the software-defined datacenter on the Ubuntu platform.Many internal and external teams depend on Juju to deliver their products and services - from Canonical Infrastructure Services, our Openstack and cloud delivery teams, to Fortune 500 companies**What you'll do**:- Work with a variety of languages (primarily Go) to develop high-quality, extensible and reusable software.- Actively collaborate with both internal and external users to resolve problems and define new features.- Show strong technical leadership and rigour in feature definition, feature delivery and code review.- Ensure quality by maintaining the tools, framework and infrastructure to run tests.**Who you are**:- Proven track record of at least 5 years professional software delivery using Go, C, C++ or similar.- Solid networking background and experience- Degree level education in a technology field- Experience with agile software development methodologies- Experience of the Linux and free software world- Working knowledge of cloud computing and experience with highly-concurrent distributed systems- Excellent communications skills in the English language, both verbal and written, especially in online environments- Ability to effectively interact with a diverse group of people (both technical and non-technical)- Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule, and to motivate and mentor others to do the same- Software development and operational experience with databases**Desirable skills and experience**:- Passion for quality and testing- Go programming language experience- Excellent distributed systems administration experience- Proficient DevOps methodology and process- Experience with test automation including system level automation and job runners- Experience with continuous integration strategies- Experience with packaging (debian, snappy)- Release Management- Technical understanding of complex distributed systems- Delivery of scale-out service solutions- Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)- Programming with and operating MongoDB- Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project - even if that is outside work open source contributions.- Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination