We are seeking a software engineer with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems. At Canonical, you can build a career and drive the success of those leveraging Canonical's Ubuntu and Juju to develop multi-cloud deployable cloud applications. Quality engineering is regarded as a first-class engineering practice; therefore, we are looking for candidates who bring deep engineering insights and a data-driven approach to test automation, reporting, and data analytics.
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The Distributed Systems testing team at Canonical is responsible for ensuring the high quality of Canonical's cloud solutions, with technologies such as Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, deployed under a wide variety of conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds like AWS, GCE, and Azure.
As a software engineer, you will have the opportunity to develop CI pipelines that power Canonical's cloud integration testing and reporting. You will contribute to upcoming initiatives, including expanding deployment capabilities to new clouds and developing AI/ML pipelines for automatic analysis of test results. A successful candidate will be interested in tackling these challenges and leading new initiatives within the team and across Canonical.
Responsibilities:
- Create automated testing approaches and infrastructure for validating reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications.
- Enable engineering teams across Canonical to develop software with confidence by making distributed system testing tooling available company-wide.
- Enhance continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical's cloud-native products such as Kubeflow.
- Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems.
- Monitor and report on automated testing efforts.
- Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team.
Requirements:
- Solid background in modern test processes and strategies.
- Experience with Python or Go development.
- Strong object-oriented development skills.
- Ability to develop and ship production-grade modern web applications.
- Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitHub CI.
- Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals.
- Solid understanding of Linux system architecture.
- Capacity for complex abstract thinking.
- Capability for 2-4 weeks of international travel per year.
Additional Skills:
- Collecting and analyzing large multidimensional datasets.
- Operating data platforms such as key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses.
- Working with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.
- Developing AI/ML pipelines.
What We Offer:
- Geographical location, experience, and performance are considered in shaping worldwide compensation, which is revisited annually.
- Performance-driven annual bonus.
- Additional benefits reflecting our values and ideals.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Annual compensation review.
- Recognition rewards.
- Annual holiday leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world-class software and services. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
