Role overview

Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go

Requirements and responsibilities

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The role entails

  • Creating automated testing approaches and infrastructure for validating reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications
  • Enabling engineering teams across Canonical to develop software with confidence by making distributed system testing tooling available across the company
  • Enhancing continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical’s cloud native products such as Kubeflow
  • Deploying, managing, and debugging highly distributed systems on clouds and bare metal
  • Monitoring and reporting on automated testing efforts
  • Collaborating 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
  • Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions
  • Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals
  • Solid understanding of the Linux system architecture
  • Complex abstract thinking
  • 2-4 weeks of international travel 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 such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS

What we offer colleagues

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
  • Annual compensation review
  • 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
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