Software Engineer - Container Images
Description For Software Engineer - Container Images
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is seeking a skilled software engineer to join their team in developing a new generation of Ubuntu-based container images. This role involves building and maintaining container images, working on CI/CD processes, and contributing to products like Rocks (OCI images) and Chisel. You'll collaborate with multiple teams, both internally and externally, to ensure high-quality container images while maintaining the Ubuntu user experience.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing tools and technology for building and maintaining container images
- Implementing and maintaining CI/CD automation for container images
- Contributing to products like Rocks and Chisel
- Assessing security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
- Writing Go code to enhance container-building tools
- Engaging with the open-source community as a subject-matter expert
- Mentoring junior team members and participating in hiring processes
The ideal candidate should have:
- Strong software development skills
- Experience with CI/CD systems and containerized operations
- Proficiency in Go programming language
- Linux systems administration and package management knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
- A collaborative mindset and passion for open-source
Canonical offers a distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints, personal learning budget, annual compensation reviews, and various benefits. As a pioneer in open source, Canonical provides an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology that impacts the world of AI, IoT, and cloud computing.
Join Canonical to shape the future of open source and be part of a global, diverse team pushing the boundaries of technology.
Responsibilities For Software Engineer - Container Images
- Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images
- Work on automated CI/CD processes for building, testing and publishing container images
- Write tools and tests for assessing security compliance and cloud-native compatibility
- Work in Go to deliver new functionalities to container-building tools
- Participate in engineering process through code and architectural review
- Provide technical feedback for the team's decision-making process
- Engage with the open-source community as a subject-matter expert
- Grow knowledge base and write documentation
- Work in a collaborative, agile and globally distributed environment
- Mentor and help with hiring
- Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events
Requirements For Software Engineer - Container Images
- Knowledge and passion for software development
- Experience in collaborative development
- Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI)
- Track record of delivering timely, high-quality software
- Experience with container images and containerised operations
- Mastery of at least one container management/orchestration tool (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Significant experience with Go
- Experience with Linux systems administration and package management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to bring clarity to technical and engineering discussions
- Skills ranging from Graduate to mid-senior Software Engineer level
- Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree
Benefits For Software Engineer - Container Images
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- 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
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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