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# Software Engineer - MAAS

- **Company:** Canonical Ltd.
- **Location:** Latin America, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Data Systems, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Linux System Administration, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, OpenStack, Oracle (Applications), Package Management Systems, Redis, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Apache Spark, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Data Management
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1760212/

## About the Role

* Proven hands-on experience in software development using Python

 * Proven hands-on experience in distributed systems, such as Kafka and Spark

 * Have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree
 * Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional skills that you might also bring

You might also bring a subset of experience from the followings that can help Data Platform to achieve its challenging goals and determine the level we will consider you for:

 * Experience operating and managing other data platform technologies, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc) and/or NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc), similar to DBA level expertise
 * Experience with Linux systems administration, package management, and infrastructure operations
 * Experience with the public cloud or a private cloud solution like OpenStack
 * Experience with operating Kubernetes clusters and a belief that it can be used for serious persistent data services

## Description

The data platform team is responsible for the automation of data platform operations, with the mission of managing and integrating Big Data platforms at scale. This includes ensuring fault-tolerant replication, TLS, installation, backups and much more; but also provides domain-specific expertise on the actual data system to other teams within Canonical. This role is focused on the creation and automation of infrastructure features of data platforms, not analysing and/or processing the data in them.

 * Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
 * Write high-quality, idiomatic Python code to create new features
 * Debug issues and interact with upstream communities publicly
 * Work with helpful and talented engineers including experts in many fields
 * Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
 * Work from home with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events


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