Canonical

Containerization & Virtualisation Engineer

Worldwide / Remote

Mid-Level to Senior

REMOTE

Canonical is hiring software engineers focused on containerization and virtualization technology across the full stack, from kernel to userspace. This is a general selection process for engineers with strong Go, Rust, or C/C++ skills who want to work on open source VMM, container technology, networking, and storage. Projects include RustVMM, LXD, Rockcraft Docker images, MicroK8s, Charmed Kubernetes, and Charmed OpenStack. The role is fully remote with team sprints twice a year.

Rust

C++

Linux kernel development

Containerization

Virtualization

LXD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenStack

OCI containers

Networking

Storage

Security analysis

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