Software Engineer

3 weeks ago


Kuwait City, Al Asimah HealthCare Dynamics Gen. Trading Company W.L.L Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and OpenStack. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

As a software engineer on the OpenStack Engineering team, you'll be building Charmed OpenStack and Ceph, a suite of open source Python based charms for deploying and managing OpenStack and Ceph. Your work will bring cloud platform technologies to a wide range of users and computing environments, from desktops to bare metal servers. This role requires a python software developer with a passion for automating infrastructure as code.

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 you'll do

  1. Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
  2. Write high quality code to create new features
  3. Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
  4. Review code produced by other engineers
  5. Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
  6. Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
  7. Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

  1. You love technology and working with brilliant people
  2. You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
  3. You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
  4. You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
  5. You have experience with Python
  6. You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
  7. You have experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others
  8. You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies

What Canonical Offers

  1. Learning and Development
  2. Annual Compensation Review
  3. Recognition Rewards
  4. Annual Leave
  5. Priority Pass for travel
  6. Flexible working option

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.

Keywords: python, agile, lean, distributed systems, openstack, ceph, containers, kubernetes, docker, scale-out, orchestration, linux, ubuntu, cloud, devops, open source, serverless, networking, home, remote job, software development, software engineering, openstack

Job location: Remote, home-based, Americas

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