Software Engineer - OpenStack

Location: Sant'Ambrogio di Torino

About Canonical
Canonical is a leading provider of open‑source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. With 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, we are a founder‑led, profitable and growing company that embraces global distributed collaboration.

Role Overview
We are hiring a Software Engineer for our Open Stack Engineering team. This role focuses on building Charmed Open Stack and Ceph, a suite of open‑source Python‑based charms that deploy and manage Open Stack and Ceph across a variety of environments from desktops to bare‑metal servers. You will work as a Python developer passionate about infrastructure automation and open‑source ecosystem dynamics.
What you'll do

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
Write high‑quality code to create new features
Debug issues and produce high‑quality code to fix them
Review code produced by other engineers
Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
Ensure success of Open Stack and Ceph on multiple architectures
Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

You love technology and working with brilliant people
You are curious, flexible, articulate and accountable
You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful and self‑motivated
You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a related field
You have experience with Python
You have interest and experience with two or more of the following:
Ubuntu Linux (kernel or userspace), Kubernetes, Open Stack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgre

SQL, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
You have experience with non‑x86 architectures, including s390, arm
64, power and others
You have experience with Open Stack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies

What Canonical offers

Learning and Development
Annual Compensation Review
Recognition Rewards
Annual Leave
Priority Pass for travel
Flexible working option

Equal Opportunity Statement
Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world‑class software and services. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Location
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Seniority Level
Entry level

Employment Type

Full‑time
Job Function
Engineering and Information Technology
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