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The role
The company, the publisher of Ubuntu, is hiring a Performance Engineer to drive software performance and correctness in a specific open source project. The work covers measurement, test harnesses and shared tooling. The company has teams in every time zone and accepts applications from almost any country.
What you will do
- Drive software performance and correctness within a specific project.
- Work on shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, analysis and reporting.
- Analyze systems and code to understand performance and scalability.
- Strengthen test capabilities, harnesses and pipelines.
- Teach and train colleagues to build a performance culture.
- Review code and technical designs.
What they ask for
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics.
- Demonstrable personal initiatives to measure and improve performance, efficiency and correctness in code.
- Experience with Linux, Debian or Ubuntu preferred.
- Professional written and spoken English with strong presentation skills.
- Leadership and commitment to mentoring and skills development.
- Nice to have: profiling, eBPF, kernel, compiler or runtime performance knowledge.
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