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Remote
Senior
Full Time
RustLinuxOpen SourceRemoteDistributed TeamEngineering Lead
Requirements
- •An 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
- •For more senior roles, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs
- •Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- •Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- •Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
- •Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- •Experience designing and writing high-quality Rust software on Linux
- •Experience with and passion for Linux at the system level
- •Professional written and spoken English
- •The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
- •Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- •Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- •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
- •Design and implement well-tested and well-documented software in Rust
- •Advocate for Rust adoption in Canonical and upstream projects
- •Identify projects and codebases that could be prioritised for Rust adoption
- •Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
- •Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
- •Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications
- •Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
- •In some cases, deploy and operate services developed by the team
- •Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy
Nice to Have
- •Experience developing for Ubuntu
- •Experience with LXD, MicroK8s, SnapD, IoT, Juju, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Pro
- •Performance engineering and security 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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