Senior Software Engineer - MAAS

About This Role

This role involves developing and shaping the architecture of MAAS, Canonical's Metal As A Service hyperscale provisioning technology, to ensure it is the leading bare metal cloud system. The engineer will contribute to continuous integration environments, documentation, and collaborate internationally with a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Develop MAAS core components and features to make MAAS the #1 bare metal cloud system
• Shape the architecture of MAAS to make it simpler, faster and easier to use
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure MAAS works well with other tools and is released on time
• Contribute improvements to the continuous integration environment, tests and practices
• Contribute to documentation of current and existing features, making it a world-class resource
• Provide technical communication and collaboration with other teams where appropriate
• Take personal ownership of problems and drive them to solutions
• Travel internationally a few times a year to meet and collaborate with your and other teams

Requirements

• Passionate about open source software, Linux, and Data Centre automation
• Solid track record of professional software development experience in Python, Go for back-end roles, or TypeScript, React for front-end roles
• Capacity to learn quickly about new systems and techniques
• Excellent logic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Strong English language communication skills - both written and verbal
• Experience with Linux server technologies, including Virtualization (KVM), Containers (LXC)
• Knowledge of network technologies, including PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP
• Strong experience with networking, storage technologies and Cloud hosting and infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Solid track record of professional software development experience

Nice to Have

• Some experience with Baseboard Management Controllers and Protocols (Redfish, IPMI, AMT and others)
• Experience of large-scale physical server provisioning and automation
• Familiarity with open source development tools and methodologies used in Ubuntu projects (MAAS, Juju, Ubuntu Server, LXD, Ubuntu Core), such as Launchpad, Debian packaging tools (APT, dpkg) and snapcraft
• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits