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Software Engineer, Ceph

1 month ago


Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria Canonical Full time

Responsibilities

  • As a software engineer at Canonical, you have a key role in the success of Ubuntu, our partners, customers, and the larger Ubuntu community. Your primary responsibility is to your team - contributing toward objectives, continuously improving, and striving to be a vital part of a healthy, high-performing team.
  • At Canonical, you will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
  • As part of Cloud Engineering, you'll be building modeling software to drive systems such as OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes with a focus on distributed storage and Ceph.
  • You'll be engineering solutions to scale in production, working with our field teams to ensure we're meeting the needs of customers looking to adopt cutting edge technology.
  • Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context.
  • Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.
  • This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

What your day will look like?

  • Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
  • Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
  • Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
  • Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
  • Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
  • Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage

What we are looking for in you

  • You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
  • You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
  • You have experience with Ceph storage
  • You love technology and working with brilliant people
  • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
  • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
  • You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional skills that you might also bring:

  • Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
  • Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar

Benefits
What we offer you:

  • We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
  • We revisit compensation annually and more often for graduates and associates to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
  • In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.
  • We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
  • We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004
  • 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 from your team and others
  • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

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