Canonical Senior Software Engineer - Linux Engineering Jobs in Kenya

Canonical Senior Software Engineer - Linux Engineering Jobs in Kenya

Job Summary

This role deals with critical issues in the open source stack that require software engineering for upstream fixes. Our engineers have to be able to work productively at any level of the stack above the kernel, in a wide range of languages, to understand and address the software issues at hand. Our group is critical to the success of our enterprise customers, partners and Ubuntu itself.

You will help with troubleshooting and driving issues to resolution with workarounds, guidance, and fixes to be released upstream and in Ubuntu.

As a Linux Engineer you will:

Resolve complex customer problems related to Ubuntu, Kernel, or Ceph

Maintain a close working relationship with Canonical's field, support and product engineering teams

Participate in upstream communities

Develop fixes, backport patches, and work with upstream for inclusion

Demonstrate good judgement in technical methods and techniques

Prioritise work and manage your time effectively against those priorities

Participate in team discussions to improve processes, tools, and documentation

Maintain clear, technical and concise communications

Travel internationally up to 10% of work time for team meetings, events and conferences

The successful Linux Engineer will have:

Professional experience

as a software engineer is required

Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Strong experience with Linux, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies

Strong development-level experience with Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux

Ability to troubleshoot with gdb and other tools

Familiarity with git source code repositories and branches

What you'll do

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team

Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them

Review code produced by other engineers

Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

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

How to Apply

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