Software Engineer - Go - Container Images
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Personal learning and development budget Annual compensation review Maternity and paternity leave Employee Assistance Programme Travel upgrades for company events, A leading open-source software company is seeking a skilled software engineer to develop and maintain cutting-edge container images. You will work within a collaborative, distributed team and engage with various technologies, including Go and CI/CD systems. The role requires a strong background in container management and software development, with opportunities to engage with the open-source community. This position offers flexible work arrangements with global travel opportunities., * Work on automated CI/CD processes.
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Write tools for security compliance assessments.
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Engage with the open-source community as a subject-matter expert.
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Mentor and assist in hiring., 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. As with Ubuntu, we will work in the open and welcome community participation. What you will do
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In this role, you'll be developing the tools and technology for building and maintaining this new generation of container images.
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You'll be working with multiple teams, both inside and outside Canonical, to ensure we deliver container images with the highest quality whilst maintaining a seamless Ubuntu user experience.
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You will also be highly involved in the implementation and maintenance of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation around these container images, for which you are expected to demonstrate deep insights into container-based DevOps.
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You will be contributing to fast-moving products like Rocks (OCI images) and Chisel, and thus have the chance to help steer and consolidate this new team.
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You'll gain experience with numerous container technologies and participate in exciting and exploratory tasks, where your feedback will be critical for the decision-making process.
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As an engineer, your seniority will be based on your software development background and ability to lead junior team members., * Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images
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Work on automated Ci/CD processes for building, testing and publishing our container images
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Write tools and tests for assessing security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
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Work in Go to deliver new functionalities to our container-building tools
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Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
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Provide technical feedback for the team's decision-making process
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Engage with the open-source community as a subject-matter expert
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Grow our knowledge base and write documentation
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Work in a collaborative, agile and globally distributed environment
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Mentor and help hiring
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Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events, * Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
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Annual compensation review
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Recognition rewards
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Annual holiday leave
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Maternity and paternity leave
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Employee Assistance Programme
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Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
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Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Requirements
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Knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
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Experience in collaborative development.
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Experience with container images and operations., Knowledge of software development Experience with CI/CD systems Container management expertise Strong communication skills Collaboration in development projects, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM, * You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
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You are a team player and have experience in collaborative development
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You have worked with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, etc.)
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You have a track record of delivering timely, high-quality software
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You have experience with container images and containerised operations
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You master at least one container management/orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
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You have significant experience with Go
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You are experienced with Linux systems administration and package management
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You have strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical concepts
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You bring clarity to technical and engineering discussions
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You are someone who strongly believes that sharing is caring, and knowledge is power
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Your skills range from those of a Graduate to a mid-senior Software Engineer
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You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree