About the Job: This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and IoT. 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. Embedded systems and Linux will be 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.
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Location: Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (Remote)
Job Type: Full-time
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
- Work on Matter, the connectivity standard unifying smart homes
- Contribute to the development of IoT platforms
- Participate in IoT standardization working group discussions and planning
- Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
Who You Are:
- Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++
- Experience working with RESTful APIs, MQTT, or other messaging protocols
- Familiarity with wireless communication protocols such as WiFi, BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Thread
- Interest and experience with:
- 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
- Strong soft skills, communication, and advocacy
- Passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or similar degree
Company Overview:
Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world's best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
