Senior Software Engineer - packaging - optimize Ubuntu Server

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Requirements:

• Love technology and working with brilliant people
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Interest or experience in open source maintenance or contributions
• Able to replay complex workloads and systems, write detailed test plans and reproducibility steps
• Comfortable contributing and debugging many languages such as C/C++, Python, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP
• Experience in packaging in one or more ecosystems or any distro package format
• Experience using and creating containers and virtual machines
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree (or any higher) or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating proactively within a distributed team
• Fostering a software ecosystem with seamless user experience for all Ubuntu users
• Evaluating contributions of other engineers to maintain high-quality software standards
• Playing a role in shaping the future of Ubuntu via both - new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
• Collaborating with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers
• Owning the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages including traditional server workloads, virtualisation and containers, package management and dependencies, language runtimes, and toolchains.