Distinguished Software Engineer

7 days ago

Muscat, Muscat, Oman beBee Careers Full time

About the Role

  • We are seeking a passionate open source enthusiast to join our Server Team as a Software Engineer.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to build a rewarding and meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate proactively within a distributed team to foster a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users.
  • Evaluate contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards.
  • Work with the team to maintain Ubuntu Server packages, specifically but not limited to:
    • Traditional server workloads (web servers, databases, network services, etc)
    • Virtualisation and Containers
    • Package management and dependencies
    • Language runtimes and toolchains
  • Debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code.

What We Are Looking For

  • You love technology and working with brilliant people.
  • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
  • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
  • Interest or experience in open source maintenance or contribution.
  • You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree (or any higher).
  • Understands basic reproducibility and testing steps. Comfortable setting up test systems in containers or virtual machines. Able to describe issues and steps clearly.
  • Strong fundamentals in one language from C/C++, Python, Rust, Go.
  • Interest in learning distro packaging.
  • Fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution.
  • Interest in containerization and virtualization such as Docker or OCI service containers, LXD system containers, and local virtualization like Virtualbox or QEMU.

What We Offer

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
  • Annual compensation review.
  • Recognition rewards.
  • Annual holiday leave.
  • Maternity and paternity leave.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Opportunity to travel to meet colleagues.

About Us

We are a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. We have been a remote-first company since our inception and welcome applicants from around the world.

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