Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage

Canonical Group - Austin, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Austin, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage at Canonical plays a crucial role in the success of Ubuntu and its community. This position focuses on building modeling software for systems like OpenStack, Ceph, and Kubernetes, with an emphasis on distributed storage. The engineer will work collaboratively within a globally distributed team to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet customer needs and drive the adoption of innovative technologies.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
• Experience with Ceph storage
• Interest and experience with Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Nice-to-haves

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

Benefits

• Performance-driven annual bonus
• 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