Senior Software Engineer - MAAS

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About The Position

This position is for a software engineer at Canonical, focusing on the development of the Metal As A Service (MAAS) technology, which is essential for hyperscale provisioning. The role involves working with a globally distributed team to enhance the MAAS platform, ensuring it is scalable, efficient, and user-friendly. The engineer will contribute to the architecture, core components, and documentation of MAAS while collaborating with other teams and maintaining high standards of performance and usability.

Requirements

• Solid track record of professional software development experience in Python, Go for back-end roles, or TypeScript, React for front-end roles.
• Capacity to learn quickly about new systems and techniques.
• Excellent logic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong English communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Experience with Linux server technologies, including Virtualization (KVM), Containers (LXC), etc.
• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Knowledge of network technologies, including PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP.
• Some experience with Baseboard Management Controllers and Protocols (Redfish, IPMI, AMT and others).
• Strong experience with networking, storage technologies and Cloud hosting and infrastructure.
• Ideally, experience of large-scale physical server provisioning and automation, including rapid deployment, configuration, management and service orchestration.
• Familiarity with open source development tools and methodologies used in Ubuntu projects (MAAS, Juju, Ubuntu Server, LXD, Ubuntu Core), such as Launchpad, Debian packaging tools (APT, dpkg) and snapcraft.
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with large-scale physical server provisioning and automation.
• Familiarity with open source development tools and methodologies used in Ubuntu projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop MAAS core components and features to enhance its capabilities as a bare metal cloud system.
• Shape the architecture of MAAS for improved simplicity, speed, and usability.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure MAAS integrates well with other tools and is released on schedule.
• Contribute to the continuous integration environment, tests, and practices to maintain fast feedback and good test coverage.
• Document current and existing features to create a world-class resource for Data Centre operators and users.
• Provide technical communication and collaboration with other teams as needed.
• Take personal ownership of problems and drive them to solutions.
• Travel internationally a few times a year for team collaboration.

Benefits

• Performance-driven annual bonus.
• 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 from your team and others.
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree