Software Engineer - packaging - optimize Ubuntu Server for public clouds
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Job Description
The role involves developing and maintaining Ubuntu Server for cloud environments, collaborating with global teams and partners to optimize Ubuntu for various cloud platforms, and contributing to open source software in a distributed, remote work setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate proactively within a distributed team to develop and maintain Ubuntu for cloud environments
- Evaluate contributions from other engineers to ensure high-quality software standards
- Work with upstream projects, community teams, and customers to improve Ubuntu and related software
- Debug issues in open source code and team-maintained code related to Ubuntu distribution
- Maintain and package software such as cloud agents, web servers, databases, and virtualization stacks
- Build and optimize Ubuntu Server images for public cloud platforms
- Participate in continuous deployment operations to deliver updates and images to end users
Requirements
- Experience working closely with the Ubuntu Engineering organization to ensure technologies such as cloud specific agents, webservers, databases, and virtualization and containerization stacks are optimized for public clouds.
- Ability to collaborate proactively within a distributed team and evaluate contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards.
- Experience working with upstream projects, the Ubuntu and Debian communities, and commercially supported customers.
- Proficiency in debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code.
- Experience working with the Ubuntu Engineering Server team to maintain and package software such as Cloud agents (e.g., google guest agent, ec2-hibinit-agent, walinuxagent).
- Experience with traditional server workloads including web servers, databases, and network services.
- Ability to work from home with the willingness to travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.
- Strong fundamentals in Python programming language.
- Understanding of Linux distribution packaging and fundamental knowledge of package management and dependency resolution.
- Interest or experience in public cloud operations or architecture.
- Interest or experience in open source maintenance or contribution.
- Understanding of basic reproducibility and testing steps, and ability to set up test systems in containers or virtual machines.
- Ability to describe issues and steps clearly.
- Interest in learning Linux distribution packaging.
- Familiarity with containerization and virtualization technologies such as Docker, OCI service containers, LXD system containers, Virtualbox, QEMU, or public cloud environments.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
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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