About the Job:
This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and IoT. Join Canonical, a growing international software company, and build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology. Your role will involve providing easy-to-deploy, secure, and customizable industrial edge solutions. You will design and implement applications that run on constrained IoT devices to powerful gateways, with embedded systems and Linux at the core of your everyday challenges.
In our team, we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing, and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required.
Work Conditions:
Full-time, Remote with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
Location:
Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Remote)
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages
- Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
- Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
- Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade IoT solutions
- Contribute to the development of IoT platforms
- Participate in IoT standardisation working group discussions and planning (Connectivity Standards Alliance, Web of Things, etc)
- Work on Matter, the connectivity standard unifying smart homes
Who You Are:
- Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++
- Experience working with RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging protocols
- Interest and experience with some of the following:
- Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Linux distributions
- Snap, Debian, or RPM packaging
- Shell scripting
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc)
- IoT frameworks and protocols
- Real-time applications
- AI/ML inference frameworks
- You value soft skills, communication, and advocacy. You are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You hold a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree
Canonical fosters a workplace free from discrimination and values diversity of experience, perspectives, and background to create a better work environment and better products.
