Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go

About Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

Job Summary

We are hiring a Software Engineer for Distributed Systems Testing with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems. You will drive the success of those leveraging Canonical’s Ubuntu and Juju to build multi-cloud deployable applications. We see quality engineering as a first-class engineering practice and are looking for people who can bring deep engineering insights and a data-driven approach to testing, test automation, reporting, and data analytics. The Distributed Systems testing team at Canonical is responsible for the high quality of Canonical’s Cloud solutions based on Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, or Kubernetes. Systems are tested and deployed under highly diverse conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds such as AWS, GCE, and Azure.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop CI pipelines that power Canonical’s cloud integration testing and reporting.
• Test products on new clouds and advance AI/ML pipelines for automatic analysis of test results.
• 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 company-wide.
• Enhance continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical’s cloud-native products such as Kubeflow.
• Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems on clouds and bare metal.
• Monitor and report on automated testing efforts.
• Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team.

What We Are Looking For

• Solid background in modern test processes and strategies.
• Experience with Python or Go development.
• Strong object-oriented development skills.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions).
• Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of the Linux system architecture.
• Complex abstract thinking.
• Willingness for 2-4 weeks of international travel per year.

Nice-to-have Skills

• Ability to develop and ship modern production-grade web applications.
• Ability to operate data platforms (key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses).
• Data collection and analytics skills for large multidimensional datasets.
• Experience with AI/ML pipelines.
• Experience with cloud technologies (e.g., OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS).

What We Offer

• Geographical location, experience, and performance are considered in shaping compensation worldwide.
• Annual compensation review (and more often for graduates and associates).
• Performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
• Additional benefits reflecting company values and ideals, balanced to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech 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, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. 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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our 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. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. 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.

Key skills/competency

Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python, Go, Test Automation, CI/CD, Cloud Orchestration, Linux, Networking, Object-Oriented Development, Quality Engineering.