Senior/Staff/Lead Architect - Build & Release Infrastructure

Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This position is ideal for a motivated engineer passionate about open-source software, Linux, and web services. Launchpad is a mature platform for managing open-source development projects, providing essential development and collaboration infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.

In this role, you will balance keeping business-critical services running while expanding our feature set. Responsibilities include:

• Proactively collaborating on design, architecture, and feature selection for solutions across distributed teams.
• Writing high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests.
• Debugging issues and producing high-quality fixes.
• Reviewing code produced by other engineers.

Who You Are:

• A technology enthusiast who enjoys working with talented individuals and solving interesting problems.
• A strategic thinker who is curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Someone who values soft skills and is passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• Holds a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
• Proficient in delivering robust code to production, ideally in Python.
• Experienced in maintaining and improving large and mature web applications.
• Knowledgeable in databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modeling.
• Interested in or experienced with integration, infrastructure, and operations.
• Believes that robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery.
• Familiar with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• Has a solid understanding of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages.

Location: Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (Remote)

Work Conditions: Full-time, Remote with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events.