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Remote
Senior
Full Time
remoteopen_sourceengineering_leadubuntulinux
Requirements
- •Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- •Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- •Ability to drive and deliver technical work streams going above and beyond expectations
- •Lead and coach others to deliver exceptional engineering work
- •Demonstrated passion for open source software
- •Significant experience with Rust, Go, Python, Flutter or C/C++
- •Professional written and spoken English
- •Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- •Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- •Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
What You'll Do
- •Leading teams in elevating the Linux developer and user experience
- •Designing, building and shipping high quality, performant software in Rust, Go and Python
- •Demonstrating sound engineering principles through architecture, development and code reviews
- •Taking responsibility for planning, estimation and execution
- •Working with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu
- •Setting expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- •Offering coaching, mentoring, technical feedback and hands-on career development
- •Contributing to upstream and neighboring open source projects
- •Optimizing the distribution for performance, reliability, and security
- •Debugging complex system-level issues and delivering robust solutions
- •Authoring and improving technical and community documentation
Nice to Have
- •Experience contributing to or leading open source projects
- •Experience with Linux distributions/distribution engineering
- •Experience with software packaging and distribution mechanisms
- •Performance or Security Engineering experience
Benefits
- •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
- •Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises.
London, UK
1000 - 5000
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