Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineer with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team. Launchpad is a platform for managing open-source development projects, providing essential development and collaboration infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.
As a Senior/Staff/Lead Architect, you will be responsible for maintaining business-critical services while expanding our feature set. Your tasks will include improving package-building capabilities, enhancing development flows for users, and modernizing the web UI. If you love keeping large projects well-organized and well-maintained, and believe that continuous improvement is key to innovation, higher velocity, and reliability, you'll fit right in.
What You'll Do:
- Proactively collaborate within and contribute to design, architecture, and feature-selection for solutions across distributed teams.
- Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests.
- Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes.
- Review code produced by other engineers.
- Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events.
Who You Are:
- You love technology and solving interesting problems.
- Strategic thinker who is curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
- Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
- Proficiency delivering robust code to production, preferably in Python.
- Experience and enjoyment in maintaining and improving large, mature web applications.
- Experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modeling.
- Interest in or experience with integration, infrastructure, and operations.
- Familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
- Solid understanding of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages.
Work Conditions:
- This is a remote position based in the EMEA region.
- Candidates are expected to be located within this region.
Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in English is expected; other languages may be a plus.
Canonical is proud to foster a diverse workplace and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
