{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"01d0f3dd807147a503133aac","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01d0f3dd807147a503133aac","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01d0f3dd807147a503133aac","title":"Software Engineer - Python - Container Images","description":"Software Engineer - Python - Container Images Home Based - Americas; Home Based - APAC; Home based - EMEA\r\nCanonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.\r\nThe company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. Canonical is building a new generation of Ubuntu-based container images to simplify open-source application deployment across the world. These container images will be free to use with long-term security commitments, and engineered for performance, security and usability. We work in the open and welcome community participation.\r\nIn this role, you'll be building and maintaining an ever-growing portfolio of container images while working with multiple teams, both inside and outside Canonical, to ensure these are of the highest quality and offer a seamless Ubuntu user experience. You will also be involved in the implementation and maintenance of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation around these container images, and you are expected to demonstrate deep insights into container-based DevOps.\r\nYou will contribute to fast-moving products like Rocks (OCI images) and have the chance to help steer and consolidate this growing team. You'll gain experience with numerous container technologies and open source projects, where your feedback and contributions will be critical to driving widespread container adoption. As an engineer, your seniority will be based on your software development background and ability to lead junior team members.\r\nCome build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical. This is an exciting opportunity for experienced software engineers looking for a place to leave their mark, who are passionate about shaping an open source product with the highest quality, for the community!\r\nLocation : EMEA\r\nThis role entails Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images\r\nWork on automated CI/CD processes for building, testing and publishing our container images\r\nWrite tools and tests for assessing security compliance and cloud-native compatibility\r\nParticipate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review\r\nContribute, both as a user and developer, to the improvement of our Python- and Go-based container-building tools\r\nProvide technical feedback for the team's decision-making process\r\nEngage with the open-source community as a subject-matter expert\r\nGrow our knowledge base and write documentation\r\nWork in a collaborative, agile and globally distributed environment\r\nMentor and help hiring\r\nWork from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events\r\nWhat we are looking for in you You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development\r\nYou are a team player and have experience in collaborative development\r\nYou have worked with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, etc.)\r\nYou are familiar with GitOps principles and workflows\r\nYou have a track record of delivering timely, high-quality software\r\nYou have experience building container images\r\nYou master at least one container management/orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)\r\nYou have experience with Python\r\nYou are experienced with Linux systems administration and package management\r\nYou have strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical concepts\r\nYou bring clarity to technical and engineering discussions\r\nYou are someone who strongly believes that sharing is caring, and knowledge is power\r\nYour skills range from those of a Graduate to a mid-senior Software Engineer\r\nYou have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree\r\nWhat we offer colleagues We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. 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.\r\nDistributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person\r\nPersonal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year\r\nAnnual compensation review\r\nRecognition rewards\r\nAnnual holiday leave\r\nMaternity and paternity leave\r\nTeam Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform\r\nOpportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues\r\nPriority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events\r\nAbout Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. 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Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company has 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.\r\nThe company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. Canonical is building a new generation of Ubuntu-based container images to simplify open-source application deployment across the world. These container images will be free to use with long-term security commitments, and engineered for performance, security and usability. We work in the open and welcome community participation.\r\nIn this role, you'll be building and maintaining an ever-growing portfolio of container images while working with multiple teams, both inside and outside Canonical, to ensure these are of the highest quality and offer a seamless Ubuntu user experience. You will also be involved in the implementation and maintenance of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation around these container images, and you are expected to demonstrate deep insights into container-based DevOps.\r\nYou will contribute to fast-moving products like Rocks (OCI images) and have the chance to help steer and consolidate this growing team. You'll gain experience with numerous container technologies and open source projects, where your feedback and contributions will be critical to driving widespread container adoption. As an engineer, your seniority will be based on your software development background and ability to lead junior team members.\r\nCome build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical. 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We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. 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.\r\nDistributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person\r\nPersonal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year\r\nAnnual compensation review\r\nRecognition rewards\r\nAnnual holiday leave\r\nMaternity and paternity leave\r\nTeam Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform\r\nOpportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues\r\nPriority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events\r\nAbout Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. 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