Software Engineer - Industrial IoT (Remote) 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: Software Engineer - Industrial IoT

Location: Lagos (Remote)

Job Summary

• This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and IoT.
• Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
• Your role will be to help us provide easy to deploy, secure, and customizable industrial edge solutions.
• You will work on designing and implementing applications that run on constrained IoT devices to powerful gateways. Embedded systems and Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges.
• In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required. 

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade IoT solutions
• Contribute to the development of IoT platforms
• Contribute to building Edge AI solutions
• Participate in IoT standardisation working group discussions and planning (Connectivity Standards Alliance, Web of Things, etc)
• Work on Matter, the connectivity standard unifying smart homes
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.
• You have experience working with RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging protocols
• You have interest and experience with a few of the following:
  • Containers (docker, kubernetes)
  • Linux distributions
  • Snap, debian, or RPM packaging
  • Shell scripting
  • CI/CD (Github Actions, Gitlab CI, etc)
  • IoT frameworks and protocols
  • Real-time applications
  • AIML inference frameworks
• You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.

What we offer colleagues

• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
• We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals.
• We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.