Senior Software Engineer - MAAS

About This Role

Develop core components and features for Canonical's MAAS (Metal As A Service) hyperscale provisioning technology, enhancing its scalability and usability as the leading bare metal cloud system.

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, to maintain fast feedback and good test coverage.
• Contribute to documentation of current and existing features, making it a world-class resource for Data Centre operators and users.
• Provide technical communication and collaboration with other teams where appropriate.
• Take personal ownership of problems and drive them to solutions.

Requirements

• 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 but not limited to Virtualization (KVM), Containers (LXC)
• Knowledge of network technologies, including PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP
• Some experience with Baseboard Management Controllers and Protocols (Redfish, IPMI, AMT and others)
• 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 in Python, Go for back-end roles, or TypeScript, React for front-end roles.

Nice to Have

• Experience of large-scale physical server provisioning and automation, including rapid deployment, configuration, management and service orchestration
• Familiarity with some of the open source development tools and methodologies used in creation of several 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