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Software Engineer (Internship) (Remote)

July 30, 2025
Full-time
Remote · United States
Internship
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Job Summary:

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. We are hiring a Software Engineer for Ceph & Distributed Storage to build modelling software and engineer solutions for distributed storage systems like OpenStack and Ceph, ensuring customer needs are met with cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities:

  • Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
  • Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
  • Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
  • Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
  • Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
  • Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage

Qualifications:

Required:

  • You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
  • You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
  • You have experience with Ceph storage
  • You love technology and working with brilliant people
  • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
  • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
  • You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
  • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Preferred:

  • Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
  • Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar

Company:

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Canonical has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.