Job Title: Software Engineer We are seeking a skilled software engineer to join our team. As a key member of our distributed team, you will play a vital role in maintaining and packaging various software, including webservers, databases, and virtualization and containerization stacks. The ideal candidate will have strong fundamentals in one language from C/C++, Python, Rust, Go and be passionate about open source software. They will also be interested in learning distro packaging and have a fundamental understanding of package management and dependency resolution. This is an exciting opportunity for you to build a rewarding and meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology. You will work collaboratively with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers. - Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users - Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards - Collaborating proactively within a distributed team - Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere - Debugging issues on open source code and team maintained code - Working 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 - 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) - 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, or Public Clouds