Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Their platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company employs over 1200 colleagues in 75+ countries, predominantly remote, and is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

• Solid background in modern test processes and strategies
• Experience with Python or Go development
• Strong object-oriented development skills
• Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions
• Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals
• Solid understanding of the Linux system architecture
• Complex abstract thinking
• Willingness to travel internationally 2-4 weeks per year

Nice-to-have:

• Ability to develop and ship modern production grade web applications
• Ability to operate data platforms: key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses
• Data collection and analytics skills for large multidimensional datasets
• Experience with AI/ML pipelines
• Experience with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS

• Create automated testing approaches and infrastructure for validating reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications
• Enable engineering teams across Canonical to develop software with confidence by making distributed system testing tooling available throughout the company
• Enhance continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical’s cloud native products such as Kubeflow
• Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems on clouds and bare metal
• Monitor and report on automated testing efforts
• Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer fostering a workplace free from discrimination. The role involves some international travel (2-4 weeks per year).