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The role entails
- Leading design and architecture of an impactful open source project
- Coding in Golang, Rust, Python, C/C++ or Typescript / React
- Collaborating proactively with a globally distributed team
- Mentoring, developing and advising colleagues in their career progression
- Displaying technical leadership in Canonical and our communities
- Debugging issues and producing high-quality code to fix them
- Contributing to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind
- Working from home with global travel twice annually for company events
What we are looking for in you
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace
- Deep experience with at least one of Go, Rust, Python or C
- Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance
- Excellent communication skills including professional written and spoken English
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Nice-to-have skills
Depending on your eventual team, you might also bring experience with
- Container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
- Highly concurrent, distributed systems
- Performance engineering – from kernel to web – benchmarks, optimization
- Software security – fuzzing, tabletop threat models, analysis, audit
- Build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation
- Public clouds or OpenStack
- Debian/Ubuntu packaging
- Systems programming or scalable web services
- Deep quality and test engineering
- Web or Flutter front-end experience
- REST and gRPC API experience
- SQL and NoSQL data store expertise
