Job Description
We are seeking a software engineer with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems at Canonical. Quality engineering is a first-class practice and we are looking for individuals with deep engineering insights and a data-driven approach to test automation, reporting, and data analytics. The Distributed Systems testing team is responsible for ensuring the high quality of Canonical's Cloud solutions based on Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, and Kubernetes under highly diverse conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds like AWS, GCE, Azure.
Responsibilities
- Create automated testing approaches 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
- 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, 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: key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses
- Work with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS
- Developing AI/ML pipelines
What We Offer
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually and offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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 program, and opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others. Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
Equal Employment Opportunities
Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world-class software and services which meet the world's computing needs. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.