Senior Observability Platform Engineer

1 week ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Canonical - Jobs Full time
Job Description

We're seeking an experienced developer with a proven track record in Python and/or Go to join our Observability team. As a key member, you will develop a cloud-native monitoring stack that combines best-in-class open-source monitoring tools. The stack is designed to be opinionated, resilient, and scalable, providing deep insights out of the box. The user experience is polished and seamless for end-users, and administrators will enjoy smooth, lightweight Day 1 and Day 2 operations.

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Kubernetes, and Observability. You will work with our best-in-class team at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.

The monitoring stack will monitor applications running on cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenStack, as well as bare-metal, virtual machines, and containers. The stack will be capable of monitoring applications and infrastructure operated by Juju, leveraging multiple data sources at various levels of the architecture.

As a member of our team, your day will be filled with:

  • Collaborating with a globally distributed team
  • Writing, testing, and documenting high-quality code to create new features
  • Debugging issues and interacting with our vibrant community
  • Reviewing code produced by other engineers
  • Representing Canonical at conferences
  • Working from home with occasional travel for internal and external events

We're looking for someone who:

  • Loves technology, observability, and working with brilliant people
  • Values soft skills and is passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
  • Has a Bachelor's or equivalent degree in Computer Science, STEM, or similar field
  • Has a proven understanding of the importance of observability and monitoring for software
  • Has strong working knowledge of modern monitoring technologies like Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, etc.
  • Is a skilled Python developer with a track record in open source
  • Has working knowledge of Go
  • Has proven experience deploying, configuring, and using Kubernetes
  • Is comfortable contributing to open source codebases and driving consensus in groups
  • Has experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools

We offer a competitive base pay, a fully remote working environment, a personal learning and development budget, and more.

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm changing the world with open source. We expect excellence and are a remote-first company since 2004.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination and diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.


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