What you'll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• Become involved in the planning of new Ubuntu features, both new ideas in your areas of interest and advising on work being done elsewhere
• Assist in the maintenance of Ubuntu Server packages. Specifically but not limited to:
  • Virtualisation (qemu, kvm, libvirt, …)
  • Containers (runc, containerd, docker, …)
• Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu and Debian communities, with upstream projects, and commercially supported customers
• Collaborate and work with our partners to make Ubuntu the best experience in the cloud

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You have interest and experience with Container runtimes or Hipervisor software stacks (or both)
• You have interest and experience in packaging (Already knowing .deb or snap packaging is a plus)
• You are curious, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Involvement in open source projects or maintaining or participating distributed software in the past a plus
• Bonus: if you are familiar with an hypervisor ecosystem using rust-vmm or even better being part of such a community.