Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go

Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go

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 Software Engineer for Distributed Systems Testing with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems.

The Distributed Systems testing team at Canonical is responsible for the high quality of Canonical's cloud solutions based on tools such as Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, and 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.

As a software engineer you will develop CI pipelines that power Canonical's cloud integration testing and reporting. You will help test our products on new clouds and advance our AI / ML pipelines for automatic analysis of test results. A successful candidate is interested in tackling these problems and imagining and leading new initiatives within the team and across Canonical.

Role involves

• 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

What we are looking for in you

Nice-to-have skills

Data collection and analytics skills for large multidimensional datasets

Benefits

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu—the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud—we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues have worked from home since our inception in 2004.

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.

Job details

Location : Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Seniority level : Entry level

Employment type : Full-time

Job function : Engineering and Information Technology

Industries : Software Development

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