Site Reliability Engineer

Company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

About the Role

We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to perfect enterprise infrastructure DevOps practices, raising the bar on what’s possible with automation by embracing a model‑driven approach on both on‑premise and public clouds.

We deploy and run OpenStack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications, applying DevOps practices. To succeed, you’ll have a strong background in Linux, Python, networking, and knowledge of how clouds work. Your work will encompass the entire stack, from bare‑metal networking and kernel up to Kubernetes and open source applications. You will be trained in core technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, security standards, OpenSearch, databases, and more. Automation is treated as a software engineering problem approached with a scientific mindset to bring operations at scale, driven by metrics and code.

Location: Globally remote role.

Qualifications

• Degree in software engineering or computer science
• Python software development experience
• Operational experience in Linux environments
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment or operations
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with OpenStack deployment or operations
• Familiarity with public cloud deployment or operations
• Familiarity with private cloud management

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Every 6 months compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance ProgramsOpportunity to travel to new locations to meet your colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events

Equal Opportunity Employer

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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