Location: Home based - EMEA
This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and AI. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
Your role will be to help us provide easy-to-deploy, secure, and customizable edge AI solutions, specifically focusing on Inference Snaps. You will work on designing and implementing silicon-optimized application packages for AI/ML inference, targeting devices from embedded systems to powerful gateways. Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges.
In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing, and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required.
What you’ll do
Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
Develop and maintain open-source AI/ML inference application packages
Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical
Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade Edge AI solutions
Secure deployment of AI inference platforms on Linux
Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu
Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
Who you are
Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.
Experience working on and developing applications for Linux
You have interest and experience with a few of the following:
Containers (docker, kubernetes)
Snap, debian, or RPM packaging
Bash scripting
CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc)
Local AI/ML inference frameworks
Hardware accelerators: GPU, NPU
You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your
identity
, we will give your application fair consideration.
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Location: Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
We are hiring a Software Engineer for our OpenStack Engineering team. 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
Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world class software and services which meet the world’s computing needs. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.
Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
#LI-remote
Location: Home Based - Shenzhen, China
Role Summary
Ubuntu is the most widely used Linux for innovation from cloud to connected device. Our growing team of IoT field engineers help customers deliver sophisticated IoT products and services across a wide range of industries - from autonomous vehicles to refrigeration solutions.
Field engineers carry a significant responsibility - helping customers understand the range of silicon and board options, helping them deliver their unique applications, and helping them ensure the security of critical infrastructure. Our team hires software engineers with experience in the full stack of Linux from firmware to GUI. We represent Canonical and its capabilities to some of the most important companies in the world. Our customers have tremendously varied goals - from mission critical and very expensive machines to tiny and low-cost things. We aim to bring the right insights at each stage of the process and to help these customers make effective choices. Most importantly, we aim to help them deliver devices that meet their business goals, on time.
Responsibilities include consulting, developing, demonstrating, and presenting some of the most advanced operating systems and application technologies available in the enterprise world. The role is a fast-paced, problem-solving environment and the questions require answers can be challenging yet very exciting. The right candidate must be resourceful, quick-thinking, and able to deliver on a wide variety of solutions across cloud, server, desktop and IoT technologies.
This role will support customers in China and the broader Asia-Pacific market.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Build strategic relationships with key technology partners and customers
Conduct yourself as a trusted technical advisor
Apply expertise in analysing a customer's business or technical challenges and correctly map the appropriate solution
Leverage deep knowledge of Ubuntu and related technologies to provide technical subject matter expertise to sales staff, partners, and customers for the development and implementation of complex IoT products and end-end solutions
Work in conjunction with Canonical’s IoT and Cloud sales, delivery and business development teams to grow existing customer accounts as well as winning new customers, including the interaction with other offices in APAC (Taipei, Tokyo and Beijing).
Develop and present technical sales collateral such as presentations, how-to guides, and technical competitive documents to project teams.
Propose and present custom technical solutions to Canonical’s clients and partners based upon Ubuntu technologies such as Ubuntu Core, Snaps and other Canonical technologies.
Understand and champion the technical knowledge and product skills required to meet customer requirements and close new business.
Assist in coordinating and preparing responses to RFx documents.
Based in Shenzhen, travel required; mix of domestic and international up to 30%.
Required Skills and Experience
A degree in engineering, preferably computer science or software engineering
2 years experience in enterprise or commercial software development with Linux
Excellent communication and presentation skills - both to customers and in support of technology and industry conferences.
Skills in supporting complex sales cycles what involve detailed technical requirements, multiple technical stakeholders and new innovative product designs.
Ability to interpret customer business challenges and technical issues and effectively communicate how a solution will align to their needs and requirements.
Experience of deploying embedded and IoT solutions - from hardware, operating systems through applications and cloud services.
Understanding of security issues in the IoT industry.
Understanding of the Linux kernel: modules, BSPs, etc.
Familiarity with x86 and ARM SoC architectures and vendors.
Experience of working in verticals such as automotive, robotics, gateway, networking, industrial and digital signage.
5+ years of experience in technical roles with Linux, preferably Ubuntu
Open source & Linux
Familiarity with open source development tools and methodology.
A strong and demonstrated grasp of Linux technologies including advanced scripting, development and Linux software packaging experience.
Familiarity with the licenses and license compliance requirements for open source software.
Familiarity with boot loaders and hardware-related aspects of Linux development
Strong English and Chinese language communication skills, especially in online environments such as mailing lists and social collaboration tools
Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule.
Self-driven personality.
УдалённоHome Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA
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УдалённоHome Based - Shenzhen, China
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