Canonical Group - Atlanta, GA
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Remote - Atlanta, GA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The Software Engineer position focuses on developing, testing, and releasing improvements to the Ubuntu Pro Client, a command-line tool essential for managing services on Ubuntu systems. This role emphasizes quality-oriented software engineering in Python, ensuring the Pro client meets the needs of a diverse user base, from enterprise customers to hobbyist users. The engineer will collaborate with various teams and engage with the open-source community to enhance the tool's functionality and stability.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Write high quality code, with unit and functional tests, to create new features
- Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
- Review code produced by other engineers
- Discuss ideas and investigate to find good solutions
- Work from home, with global travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events
Requirements
- Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- Extensive experience with Python on Linux
- Interest in and experience with Ubuntu Linux systems administration, continuous integration, end-system contract management, Debian packaging, working with public or on premise clouds
Nice-to-haves
- Previous contributions to open source Python projects
- Experience engaging with the open source community
Benefits
- Work from home
- Global travel opportunities
