Software Engineer - OpenStack

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building Charmed OpenStack and Ceph, a suite of open source Python-based charms for deploying and managing OpenStack and Ceph across diverse computing environments.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (cloud infrastructure)

Builds

OpenStack and Ceph deployment charms

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, open source

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Linux kernel/userspace, non-x86 architecture experience, OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch, Kubernetes, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services

Preferred skills

Experience with AI/ML, experience with s390/arm64/power architectures

Technologies

Python, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian, OVN, Openvswitch

Responsibilities

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team, Write high quality code to create new features, Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them, Review code produced by other engineers, Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions, Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures

Seniority

Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC

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About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. 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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work s