Senior Software Engineer – MAAS at Canonical – Lagos

Canonical is recruiting a remote Senior Software Engineer for MAAS, its bare-metal infrastructure provisioning platform. The engineer will develop core features, improve architecture and automation, and collaborate with teams building cloud and data-centre tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve MAAS components, reliability, usability and performance for bare-metal cloud management.
• Contribute to platform architecture and work with related teams on integrated releases.
• Develop automated tests, continuous integration practices and technical documentation.
• Provide technical guidance on complex deployment, networking, storage and systems engineering issues.
• Collaborate with engineers and the wider open-source community on platform development.

Requirements

• Professional development experience in Python or Go for back-end engineering, or TypeScript and React for front-end development.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a related discipline.
• Strong experience with infrastructure networking, storage technologies and cloud hosting.
• Understanding of PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS and NTP, plus exposure to BMC technologies and protocols such as Redfish, IPMI or AMT.
• Familiarity with physical-server provisioning, deployment orchestration and automation is advantageous.
• Knowledge of Ubuntu-related open-source tools and practices, including Debian packaging, Launchpad, MAAS, Juju, LXD or Snapcraft, is beneficial.
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed engineering team and travel to internal events up to four times a year.