Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python​/Go

Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go

Join Canonical as a Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go
. This role is focused on building and validating resilient distributed systems, driving success for teams that build multi‑cloud deployable applications on top of Canonical’s Ubuntu and Juju.

Canonical is a leading provider of open‑source software and operating systems. Ubuntu is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Canonical is founder‑led, profitable, and growing, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles.

The Distributed Systems testing team is responsible for the high quality of Canonical’s Cloud solutions based on Juju, Terraform, Open Stack, or Kubernetes. Systems are tested and deployed under highly diverse conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds such as AWS, GCE, and Azure.

• 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

• Solid background in modern test processes and strategies
• Experience with Python or Go development
• Strong object‑oriented development skills
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Circle
  
  CI, Git Hub Actions
• Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals
• Solid understanding of the Linux system architecture
• Complex abstract thinking
• Ability to travel internationally 2‑4 weeks per year

• 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 Open Stack, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS

• 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

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a high standard for people joining the company.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.