Site Reliability Engineer

Join Site Reliability Engineer role at Canonical — the leading provider of open source software and operating systems that powers the global enterprise and technology markets.

Canonical’s flagship platform, Ubuntu, is widely adopted in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company collaborates globally with more than 1200 colleagues in 75+ countries and maintains a founder‑led, profitable, and growing culture.

Our goal is to perfect enterprise infrastructure Dev Ops practices and raise the bar on automation by embracing a model‑driven approach, whether on‑premise or on public clouds.

Location:

Globally remote role – you can work from anywhere in the world.

• Deploy and run Open Stack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications while applying Dev Ops practices.
• Identify and address incidents, monitor and observe applications, anticipate potential issues, and enable product refinement.
• Work across the stack from bare‑metal networking and kernels to Kubernetes and open source applications.
• Contribute to core technologies such as Open Stack, Kubernetes, security standards, and open source products including Kubeflow, Kafka, Open Search, and databases.
• Apply scientific methodology to automation, driving operations at scale with metrics and code.

• 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.
• Ability 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 team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Compensation review every six months.
• 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.