Senior Engineer, Telemetry 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 Engineer, Telemetry

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The right candidate will be part of the team that will provide the backbone to our expanding IoT market, enhancing both our on-prem offering as well as scaling to a global cloud-based platform.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with a globally distributed team.
• Write scalable service APIs in Python and Golang to provide telemetry services.
• Develop observability, remote logging, data acquisition, alert and notification, and edge processing capabilities
• Work with our infrastructure team to develop both a cloud-based SaaS offering as well as a containerised local on-prem solution.
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production at scale.
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
• Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who you are

• You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• You have a broad technology base but favor backend code and infrastructure.
• You have a good understanding of cybersecurity and the challenges of the IoT environment.
• You have knowledge and experience of telemetry systems including data streaming technologies, observability and monitoring systems, and the application of security/IAM models to such systems.
• You have proficiency in developing tooling and libraries, and the design and implementation of back-end web services, messaging/data pipelines, and REST APIs using python and/or Golang
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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