Recent Job Openings at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu -- the world’s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realize the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Go Software Engineer, Commercial Systems

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• This engineering role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux to build a career with Canonical and drive the success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products.
• If you have an affinity for open source development and a passion for technology with an interest in business operations, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.
• The Commercial Systems engineering team's mission is seamless access and integration to Canonical services that provide added value to the already rich open-source universe.
• Building a combination of home-grown systems and integration with existing open-source technologies, off-the shelf SaaS such as Salesforce and public cloud marketplaces, the team enables sales, operations, support and delivery at Canonical to scale.
• As a member of the team and in cooperation with internal stakeholders you will be challenged to identify, design and implement or improve internal business processes and deliver solutions at scale the highest engineering quality.
• As part of an established and fully remote team your daily tasks will be mostly focused on coding, reviewing, testing, delivery and maintenance of solutions across a range of products/solutions including Salesforce.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop services, features, and enhancements in Go or Python.
• Analyze, design, implement, deploy and maintain distributed systems responsible for financial transactions and product entitlements.
• Integrate our commercial solutions with public cloud marketplaces and APIs.
• Stay up-to-date on and apply the latest developments in public cloud marketplaces, APIs and features.
• Work within a team in an agile manner on design, implementation, testing and code reviews in an iterative manner.
• Take ownership of services deployed to production that satisfy diverse interests across our company.
• Assist in meeting with internal stakeholders to help gather requirements and set priorities.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related Engineering field.
• 5+ years of experience as a software developer in Go, Python, C/C++, Java, or another high-level language.
• Proven ability to consistently deliver robust code to production.
• Experience with building and evolving distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience with developing and deploying for Ubuntu Linux in public clouds is a plus.
• Experience with integrating authentication & authorization, financial, public cloud or marketplace systems is a plus.
• Experience with SalesForce or APEX is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders and remain highly motivated, productive, and organized.
• Able to travel to international destinations for 1 week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels.

We Offer

• Learning and Development
• Annual Compensation Review
• Recognition Rewards
• Annual Leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Flexible working option.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

Job Position: DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Lagos

Description

• This role is open to recent graduate software professionals as well as candidates with some professional product software engineering and site reliability experience who want to join a global community of like-minded engineers.
• Help us shape the future of open source IT, devops, and IS, from bare metal to containers. Our goal is to revolutionise open source application and infrastructure operations.
• We are on a mission to reshape the world of software operations, using Python for next-generation infrastructure-as-code and blazing a trail to model-driven operations.
• We want to enable companies to run very efficient bare metal operations for high performance computing, private cloud, data lakes and analytics.
• To achieve this we need to invent some new technology, and we need to build some new products. In support of that goal we hire software engineers who are passionate about quality, reliability and devops, to join our regional devops teams.
• This team is part of our fully managed infrastructure operations organisation. We run many private clouds and Kubernetes clusters for customers around the world, which enables us to improve our infra-as-code products based on our own real experience, mirroring that of our users and customers.
• We work in Python, creating open source operations capabilities that simplify these operations for anybody, worldwide, who is building on Ubuntu.
• This team is a true devops team - one of our global monitoring and network operations centres. Most of the work is pure Python software development where we expect a focus on quality, design, documentation, tests and performance.
• The team is responsible for remote monitoring, using open source products. The team also enhances packages of opscode, and Ubuntu itself, to ensure our platform is the easiest, most robust, and best performing way to drive your data centre.
• This role is ideal for junior software engineers who want to work in Python, have a passion for distributed systems, and an interest in the entire Linux stack - from kernel to networking to virtualization and containers.
• It is a role that requires rigour in both code and customer interactions. Our DevOps Engineers are technically astute open source enthusiasts who are excited about cloud computing and are ready to join a global team charged with delivering world class services to our customers.

What you’ll do

• Work in Python to design and deliver open source software operations code
• Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
• Learn to think rigorously about application and infrastructure reliability
• Shape high quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure
• Simplify open source operations for our customers and open source community
• Demonstrate sound engineering design and testing principles in your code
• Follow agile software development practices
• Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Global travel up to 10% of time for internal and external events.

Who you are

• University Degree in Computer Science or related Software Engineering field
• Advanced level Python programming skills
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You are organized and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software
• You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
• You understand the importance of reliable operations in a devops world
• You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies
• You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking.

What you will learn

• Devops and site reliability engineering
• OpenStack and Kubernetes in operation
• Wide range of open source applications and skills
• Work directly with customers in a range of different businesses
• Real-life and hands-on exposure to a wide range of emerging technologies and tools.

We Offer

• Learning and development
• Competitive salary
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

Job Position: Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Server

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Ubuntu Server is the world's most popular Linux - on cloud and bare metal. In this role, you will manage a team delivering Ubuntu Server to the world.
• Ubuntu strives to offer the latest, best, free software components, in an easy to use and highly reliable form.
• We build on the technical excellence of Debian and bring additional focus and shape to the solutions we provide to industry.
• The successful applicant will be passionate about the future of Ubuntu, mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and aware of the needs of large, innovative customers.
• This is an exciting opportunity for a leader passionate about strong teams, open source software and Ubuntu.
• Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do:

• Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and commercial partners
• Oversee the quality of the Ubuntu Server image family
• Plan and deliver Ubuntu Server features
• Work from home with global travel for 2 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Requirements
Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You have some experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• An understanding of a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
• Practical experience with at least 1 of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Amazon Web Services.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

Note

• Canonical is proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better platform for our users and customers.
• This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of the world of Ubuntu.