Senior Software Engineer - Go at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Go

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Description

• Design, develop and contribute to a mature distributed systems Go code base. We're looking for experienced Go developers who can show strong technical leadership and engineering rigour. Own the design, delivery and support of features in a highly concurrent, highly distributed system that drives cloud automation and software operations at scale.
• 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.

Who You Are

• Degree level education in a technology field
• 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 
• 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.

Desirable Traits and Experience

• 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.