Distributed Systems Testing Software Engineer, Python / Go

CanonicalNorth America, Latin America, Europe, AfricaMid LevelQA & Testing

Specialty

QA & Testing

The role

Canonical is hiring a software engineer for its Distributed Systems testing team, which validates cloud products built on Juju, Terraform, OpenStack and Kubernetes. The role is remote; the posting does not state location limits.

What you will do

  • Build automated testing approaches and infrastructure to validate reliability, performance and resilience of cloud orchestration tools
  • Make distributed system testing tooling available to engineering teams across Canonical
  • Improve CI pipelines for deploying and testing cloud native products such as Kubeflow
  • Deploy, manage and debug distributed systems on clouds and bare metal
  • Monitor and report on automated testing, and help advance AI/ML pipelines for analysing test results

What they ask for

  • Solid background in modern test processes and strategies
  • Experience developing in Python or Go, with strong object-oriented skills
  • Working knowledge of CI tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI or GitHub Actions
  • Knowledge of networking fundamentals and Linux system architecture
  • Willingness to travel internationally 2-4 weeks per year
  • Nice to have: AI/ML pipelines, data analytics, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS

What they offer

  • Distributed work with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
  • Annual compensation review and performance-driven bonus or commission
  • Annual holiday leave plus maternity and paternity leave
  • Assistance programme, wellness platform and recognition rewards

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Canonical's careers page behind the apply button.

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