Software Engineer (OpenStack) Job at Canonical Nigeria

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Lagos

August 22, 2024

Full Time

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Software Engineer (OpenStack)

Job Location: Lagos

Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and OpenStack. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
As a software engineer on the OpenStack Engineering team, you’ll be building Charmed OpenStack and Ceph, a suite of open source Python based charms for deploying and managing OpenStack and Ceph.
Your work will bring cloud platform technologies to a wide range of users and computing environments, from desktops to bare metal servers. This role requires a python software developer with a passion for automating infrastructure as code.
Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined data center, distributed systems, and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion, and you will need to work well in that context.
Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of large, innovative organizations.
This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
Write high quality code to create new features
Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
Review code produced by other engineers
Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are:

You have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You love technology and working with brilliant people
You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
You have experience with Python
You have interest and experience with two or more of the following:Ubuntu Linux – kernel or user space, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
You have experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others
You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies