Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

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.

We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to perfect enterprise infrastructure Dev Ops practices, raising the bar on what’s possible with automation through a model‑driven approach, on‑premise or on public clouds.

In this role you will deploy and run Open Stack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications, applying Dev Ops practices. You’ll work across the stack from bare‑metal networking and kernel up to Kubernetes and open source applications. You will be trained in core technologies such as Open Stack, Kubernetes, security standards, Kubeflow, Kafka, Open Search, databases and more.

Automation is a software engineering problem that we approach with a scientific mindset to bring operations at scale, driven by metrics and code. This role is globally remote.

To succeed you need to be a software engineer fluent in Python, with a genuine interest in the full open source infrastructure stack and the ability to work in operations 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
• 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
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet your colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events
• Compensation reviewed every 6 months, with annual bonuses and base pay adjusted every 6 months to recognize outstanding performance

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.