Senior Software Engineer – Go

As a software engineer on the Juju team, you’ll be working on a large open source Go project that powers complex distributed software systems across the world. Juju is the engine behind model-driven operations, providing a means to operate complex software on public cloud, private cloud, Kubernetes and bare-metal. Combined with the Charmed Operator framework, Juju provides a complete solution for applications and infrastructure management.

If you love solving interesting technical challenges in elegant, high-performance ways, come join our globally-distributed team of software engineers in building the future of the software-defined datacenter on the Ubuntu platform.

Many internal and external teams depend on Juju to deliver their products and services – from Canonical Infrastructure Services, our Openstack and cloud delivery teams, to Fortune 500 companies

What we are looking for in you

• Proven track record of professional software delivery using Go, C, C++ or similar.
• Hands-on experience developing highly concurrent distributed systems
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, LXD, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Solid networking background and experience
• Degree level education in a technology field
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience of the Linux and free software world
• Working knowledge of cloud computing and experience with highly-concurrent distributed systems
• Excellent communications skills in the English language, both verbal and written, especially in online environments
• Ability to effectively interact with a diverse group of people (both technical and non-technical)
• Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation, delivering according to a schedule, and to motivate and mentor others to do the same

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Passionate about software quality and testing
• Experience with packaging (debian, snappy)
• Programming with and operating MongoDB
• Experience working on a distributed team on an open source project — even if that is outside work open source contributions.
• Demonstrated track record of Open Source contributions