Software Engineer, Canonical

Data Infrastructure

Salary not provided
Kubernetes
Python
Postgres
Cassandra
Spark
Junior and Mid level
Remote in EU, UK, US
Canonical

Enterprise open source solutions

Job no longer available

Canonical

Enterprise open source solutions

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsDevOps

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Kubernetes
Python
Postgres
Cassandra
Spark
Junior and Mid level
Remote in EU, UK, US

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsDevOps

Company mission

Canonical's mission is to make open source software available to people everywhere.

Role

Who you are

  • You love technology and working with brilliant people
  • You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
  • You are familiar with Kubernetes and believe it can be used for serious persistent data services
  • You are a Python programmer that enjoys challenging projects in mission-critical environments
  • You have an interest in open source database technologies like Postgres, Cassandra, InfluxDB, SQLite, Spark
  • You are familiar with DevOps concepts and technologies

What the job involves

  • Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
  • Write high quality code to create new features
  • Debug issues and interact with upstream communities, in the open
  • Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields
  • Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

Our take

Canonical originally started as a company to help distribute Ubuntu (an operating system based on Linux). It is now a leader in delivering open source to the world quickly, securely and cost effectively.

With a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system which runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Just some of its partners include Microsoft, HP, Dell, aws, and Intel.

The founder has highlighted that Canonical's biggest challenge has been that demand is bigger than the company’s ability to service it. Originally a not-for-profit, Canonical is now monetising and is planning to go public. It also announced its product Ubuntu has a comprehensive subscription version called Ubuntu Pro, likely to aid monetising efforts.

Freddie headshot

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

18% female employees

19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (1 round)

Aug 2013

$9.7m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $9.7m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • Learning and personal professional development budget
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual leave
  • Generous parental leave
  • Priority Pass for travel

Company values

  • Truly distributed: Exceptional, self-motivated, organised and passionate people deserve the freedom to live where they want. Our teams travel regularly to meet colleagues and customers.
  • Best in class: We rate top for Linux security. We run more hosts, more workloads and more devices than anybody else, because we strive to do everything insightfully, properly, fairly, and openly
  • Enterprise focused: The world is moving to Ubuntu – open source that's faster, cheaper and better. Empower engineers, secure precious data, share knowledge and lead the change

Company HQ

Southwark, London

Leadership

Serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Thawte Consulting (sold to VeriSign for $575m)

Share this job