Canonical

Software Engineer, Sustaining Engineering

Remote (Global)

Mid-Level

REMOTE

Canonical is hiring a remote Software Engineer for its Sustaining Engineering team, focused on resolving complex issues across the open source stack including Ubuntu, Kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. The role involves diagnosing and fixing bugs, backporting patches, contributing upstream, and collaborating with field and product engineering teams. You will work across all layers of the Linux-based infrastructure stack, from bare metal and virtualization to storage, networking, and cloud platforms. This is a great fit for engineers passionate about Linux, open source, and deep techni...

Linux

Python

Go

C

C++

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Ceph

gdb

git

Debugging

Bug fixing

Patch backporting

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