The company is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, known for its platform Ubuntu, which is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customer base includes major public cloud and silicon providers as well as industry leaders across various sectors. The company emphasizes global distributed collaboration, with a team of over 1200 colleagues across 75+ countries and minimal office-based roles.
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We are hiring a Software Engineer focused on Distributed Systems Testing with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems. You will play a key role in supporting those who utilize the company's Ubuntu and Juju for building multi-cloud deployable applications. We value quality engineering as a critical aspect of our work and seek individuals who can contribute deep engineering insights and a data-driven approach to testing, automation, reporting, and data analytics.
The Distributed Systems Testing team is responsible for ensuring the high quality of the company's Cloud solutions using technologies like Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. Systems will be tested and deployed under a variety of conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds such as AWS, GCE, and Azure.
Location: Mecca, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (Remote)
Work Conditions: Full-time, Remote with occasional travel (2-4 weeks per year)
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop automated testing approaches and infrastructure to validate reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications.
- Provide engineering teams with testing tooling to ensure confidence in software development.
- Enhance CI pipelines for deploying and testing the company's cloud-native products like Kubeflow.
- Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems on clouds and bare metal.
- Monitor and report on automated testing efforts.
- Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team.
Qualifications:
- Solid background in modern test processes and strategies.
- Experience with Python or Go development.
- Strong object-oriented development skills.
- Familiarity with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions).
- Understanding of networking technologies and fundamentals.
- Strong comprehension of Linux system architecture.
- Capability for complex abstract thinking.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience developing and shipping modern production-grade web applications.
- Knowledge of data platforms (key-value stores, relational/document databases, event buses).
- Proficiency in data collection and analytics for large multidimensional datasets.
- Experience with AI/ML pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud technologies like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.
Compensation and Benefits:
The company considers geographical location, experience, and performance when shaping compensation, which is reviewed annually. Additionally, we provide benefits that align with our values:
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunities for travel to meet colleagues within the company
Diversity and Inclusion:
The company is committed to an inclusive workplace free from discrimination. We value diverse experiences and perspectives, and we ensure fair consideration for all applicants, regardless of their identity.
