Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer –
Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to global enterprises. Our flagship platform, Ubuntu, powers public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT initiatives worldwide.

We manage hundreds of private cloud and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable delivery to customers across physical and public cloud estates. Your role will involve full stack operations, from bare-metal networking and kernel to Kubernetes and open source applications. You will be trained in core technologies such as Open Stack, Kubernetes, security, Kubeflow, Kafka, Open Search, and more.

Automation is at the core of our approach, treated as a software engineering problem to deliver metrics‑driven, code‑based operations at scale.

• Deploy and run Open Stack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications while applying Dev Ops practices.
• Identify and resolve incidents, monitor and observe applications, anticipate potential issues, and enable product refinement.
• Work with mission‑critical services for global brand‑name customers.

• Degree in software engineering or computer science.
• Python software development experience.
• Operational experience in Linux environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment or operations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
• Willingness to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long.

• Familiarity with Open Stack deployment or operations.
• Familiarity with public cloud deployment or operations.
• Familiarity with private cloud management.

• Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly in‑person team sprints.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Every 6 months compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events.

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.

Location:

Globally remote role.