Lead Open Source Software Engineer

3 days ago


Manama, Manama, Bahrain RESO Full time

**Company Overview**

Canonical is a pioneering technology 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, Io T and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis.

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. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its 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.

About Us

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.

Job Description

The Server Team maintains and packages a wide variety of software including webservers, databases, and virtualization and containerization stacks. This role entails Collaborating proactively within a distributed team, Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users, Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards, Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere, and Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Owning the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages.
  • Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc).
  • Virtualisation and Containers.
  • Package management and dependencies.
  • Language runtimes and toolchains.

Requirements

We are looking for someone who loves technology and working with brilliant people, is curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable. You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated. Experience in packaging in one or more ecosystems is required. You should feel comfortable contributing and debugging many languages such as C/C++, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP. Experience using and creating containers and virtual machines is also necessary.

What We Offer Colleagues

Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person, 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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