Software Engineer, Cloud - Sustaining Engineering at Canonical

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Canonical is hiring a software engineer, cloud - sustaining engineering focused on cloud product maintenance and reliability.

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Location: Remote
Advertised region: Home based - Worldwide
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Python, C++, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Go

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Role overview

Canonical's sustaining engineers diagnose and fix critical issues across open-source infrastructure used by enterprise customers, partners and Ubuntu itself. The work spans virtualization, containers, storage, networking and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

Investigate customer issues in Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes and related software, providing workarounds and durable fixes.
Develop and backport patches, work with upstream communities, and review other engineers' code.
Coordinate with field, support and product engineering teams, improve tools and documentation, and communicate technical findings clearly.

Qualifications

Professional software engineering experience and strong Linux plus cloud-infrastructure knowledge.
Development-level Python, Go, C or C++ on Linux, debugging tools such as gdb, and familiarity with Git.
Ability to work across the software stack and travel internationally for team events up to the stated frequency.

Technology in this role

The posting names Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, KVM, Docker, LXC/LXD, OVS/OVN, Python, Go, C, C++ and gdb.

Benefits

Canonical lists globally remote work with in-person team meetings, a USD 2,000 annual learning budget, annual compensation review, paid leave and family-leave programs.

About Canonical

Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds commercial and open-source technology for cloud, data, AI and connected-device environments. The company describes itself as globally distributed and says most colleagues work from home.

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Source checked: 2026-11-08

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