Canonical Group - New York, NY

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - New York, NY
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Canonical seeks an experienced developer with a proven track record in Python and/or Go. As part of the Observability team, you will develop a cloud-native monitoring stack that composes best-in-class open-source monitoring tools. The stack is opinionated, resilient, and scalable, providing deep insights out of the box. The user experience is polished and seamless for the end-users, and its administrators will enjoy smooth, lightweight Day 1 and Day 2 operations. This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Kubernetes, and Observability. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu. The monitoring stack will monitor applications running on a mix of cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenStack, as well as bare-metal, virtual machines, and containers. The stack will be capable of monitoring applications and infrastructure irrespective of whether they are operated by Juju, and will leverage multiple data sources at various levels of the architecture, including Juju itself, to contextualize the collected telemetry and insights delivered to the end-users. In this role, you will collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team, write, test, and document high-quality code to create new features, debug issues, and interact with a vibrant community. You will also review code produced by other engineers and attend conferences to represent Canonical and the Charmed Observability Stack. This position allows for remote work with global travel expected 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
  • Write, test and document high quality code to create new features
  • Debug issues and interact with a vibrant community
  • Review code produced by other engineers
  • Attend conferences to represent Canonical and the Charmed Observability Stack
  • Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
  • Proven understanding of the importance of observability and monitoring for keeping software running smoothly
  • Strong working knowledge of modern monitoring technologies like Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, etc.
  • Skilled Python developer, preferably with a track record in open source
  • Working knowledge of Go
  • Proven, hands-on experience deploying, configuring and using Kubernetes
  • Comfortable contributing to open source codebases maintained by other companies
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools
  • Interest and experience with two or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux, container images, Debian packaging, snap, distributed systems

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with open source contributions
  • Familiarity with cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenStack
  • Knowledge of Juju and its telemetry capabilities

Benefits

  • Fully remote working environment
  • Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
  • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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