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Summary

• This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and distributed systems. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.
• As a Software Engineer on the Juju team, you'll be working on a large open source Go project that powers complex distributed software systems across the world. Juju is the engine behind model-driven operations, providing a means to operate complex software on public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes and bare-metal. Combined with the Charmed Operator framework, Juju provides a complete solution for applications and infrastructure management.
• If you love solving interesting technical challenges in elegant, high-performance ways, come join our globally-distributed team of software engineers in building the future of the software-defined datacenter on the Ubuntu platform.
• Many internal and external teams depend on Juju to deliver their products and services - from Canonical Infrastructure Services, our Openstack and cloud delivery teams, to Fortune 500 companies

What You’ll Do

• Work with a variety of languages (primarily Go) to develop high-quality, extensible and reusable software.
• Actively collaborate with both internal and external users to resolve problems and define new features.
• Show strong technical leadership and rigour in feature definition, feature delivery and code review.
• Ensure quality by maintaining the tools, framework and infrastructure to run tests.

Job Requirements
Who you are:

• Degree level education in a technology field  
• Proven track record of at least 5 years professional software delivery using Go, C, C++ or similar.
• Solid networking background and experience
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience of the Linux and free software world
• Working knowledge of cloud computing and experience with highly-concurrent distributed systems
• Excellent communications skills in the English language, both verbal and written, especially in online environments
• Ability to effectively interact with a diverse group of people (both technical and non-technical)
• Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule, and to motivate and mentor others to do the same
• Software development and operational experience with databases

Desirable skills and experience:

• Passion for quality and testing
• Go programming language experience
• Excellent distributed systems administration experience
• Proficient DevOps methodology and process
• Experience with test automation including system level automation and job runners
• Experience with continuous integration strategies
• Experience with packaging (debian, snappy)
• Release Management
• Technical understanding of complex distributed systems
• Delivery of scale-out service solutions
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Programming with and operating MongoDB
• Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project -- even if that is outside work open source contributions.
• Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions

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Job Responsibilities

• Combine your interests in telco and open source software development in this exciting opportunity. We aim to deliver the worlds best open source telco solutions as an integrated, secure and reliable portfolio from Canonical. Our team, working mostly in Python, are building a collection of Charmed Operators that are operated on bare-metal, public cloud and Kubernetes using Juju.
• This role is primarily a software development role, but with a focus on delivering seamless software operations at scale.
• As a member of the growing telco solution engineering team at Canonical you will help bring the cutting edge of open source software into the telecommunications sector.
• You and your team will develop state-of-the-art solutions to operate VNFs and CNFs on Kubernetes and major public clouds. In this role you will work with a variety of open source projects, including Open Source MANO (OSM), Magma, TIP, OpenRAN, ONF, OAI and more.
• In addition to the engineering behind the network functions themselves, you'll have the chance to work with industry-leading teams inside Canonical to ensure your work is backed by rock-solid data stores, and highly observable using our Kubernetes-based Observability stack.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Write high quality Python and Go code to implement new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality fixes
• Review code and designs from other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with 2 to 4 weeks global travel for internal and external events

Job Requirements
Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You have extensive software engineering experience with Python or Go
• You have experience in the telecommunications industry, preferably with MNOs or NEPs
• You understand VNF and CNF concepts and have experience with OpenStack or Kubernetes
• You have experience in automating the software product lifecycle with tools like Juju, Charms, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• You are excited about increasing the open source footprint in the telecom world.

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Job Description

• This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and cloud-native computing. Come and build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.
• As part of the Charmed Operator Framework team, you’ll be responsible for designing and maintaining the Python framework that allows for the creation and management of Charmed Operators - software that drives software. You will be responsible for ensuring sound software architecture and enforcing best practices in software quality, testing and documentation.
• This is a role for individual contribution through quality, Pythonic code, exceptional design and intuitive documentation.
• You’ll be designing and implementing the foundation for software operators that can run anywhere, from bare metal to Kubernetes in the cloud.  You’ll work closely with other teams in Canonical to ensure the framework provides a reliable, easy-to-use solution that scales to production workloads and meets the needs of our customers looking to adopt cutting-edge technology.
• In addition to the core framework development, this team has responsibilities in the Charmed Operator community, for which Charmhub is the centre. You'll get the chance to work not just with the broad range of talent within Canonical, but the broader open source community. The Charmed Operator ecosystem is made up of Charmed Operators themselves, but also Juju, Pebble and more. Come and help build a thriving community, and contribute to a broad range of technologies that ensure seamless software operations at scale for some of the biggest names in tech.
• In addition to this role, we are hiring for engineers with experience in operating and automating different classes of software. From Data Platform to Observability and MLOps; if you have experience in automating or operating these kinds of software, then please seek out those roles, or indicate your experience in your application to this role.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do:

• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Write high quality, idiomatic Python to drive the delivery of the Python Operator Framework
• Build and maintain a high-quality testing framework to help businesses operate complex software efficiently and safely
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
• Engage with the community to share best practices
• Encourage and shepherd quality, idiomatic code into the framework
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Job Requirements
Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree
• You have deep experience and history of writing modern, maintainable Python
• 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, scalable web services