Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Python / Go Job Canonical

  • Kenya
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 3 days ago
  • 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 across 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
  • Monitor and report on automated testing efforts
  • Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team
What we are looking for in you
  • Solid background in modern test processes and strategies
  • Experience with Python or Go development
  • Strong object oriented development skills
  • Ability to develop and ship production grade modern web applications
  • Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub CI
  • Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals
  • Solid understanding of Linux system architecture
  • A capacity for complex abstract thinking
  • Capability for 2-4 weeks of international travel travel per year
Additional skills that you might also bring
  • Collecting and analyzing large multidimensional datasets
  • Operating data platforms: key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses
  • Work with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS
  • Developing AI/ML pipelines

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