• Application Deadline:
• Position: Software Engineer - OpenStack


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Description

• This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and OpenStack. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.


• As a Software Engineer on the OpenStack Engineering team, you’ll be building Charmed OpenStack and Ceph, a suite of open source Python based charms for deploying and managing OpenStack and Ceph.


• Your work will bring cloud platform technologies to a wide range of users and computing environments, from desktops to bare metal servers. This role requires a python software developer with a passion for automating infrastructure as code.


• Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context.


• Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations. 


• This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team


• Write high quality code to create new features


• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them


• Review code produced by other engineers


• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions


• Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures


• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people


• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable


• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated


• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree


• You have experience with Python


• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following:Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services


• You have experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others


• You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies

What Canonical Offers

• Learning and Development


• Annual Compensation Review


• Recognition Rewards


• Annual Leave


• Priority Pass for travel


• Flexible working option