Senior Software Engineer - MAAS

Role overview

This role entails

• Develop MAAS core components and features for bare-metal cloud provisioning.
• Shape MAAS architecture to make it simpler, faster, and easier to use.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure MAAS integrates with other tools and is released on time.
• Improve continuous integration, tests, and practices to support fast feedback and good test coverage.
• Document existing and new features for data centre operators and users.
• Provide technical communication and collaboration with other teams; take ownership of problems and drive solutions.
• Travel internationally a few times a year to meet and collaborate with teams.

What we are looking for

• Be passionate about open-source software, Linux, and data centre automation, and learn new systems and techniques quickly.
• Have a solid professional software development track record in Python or Go for back-end roles, or TypeScript or React for front-end roles.
• Have excellent logic, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills; communicate strongly in written and spoken English.
• Have a bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, STEM, or a similar field.
• Have Linux server technology experience, including examples such as KVM virtualization and LXC containers.
• Know network technologies including PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, and NTP; have some experience with baseboard management controllers and protocols such as Redfish, IPMI, or AMT.
• Have strong experience with networking, storage technologies, and cloud hosting and infrastructure.
• Large-scale physical server provisioning and automation experience is desirable.
• Familiarity with open-source tools and methods such as Launchpad, Debian packaging tools (APT, dpkg), and snapcraft is desirable.
• Be willing to travel up to four times a year for internal events.

Relevant tools and platforms

• The role concerns MAAS and Ubuntu projects, including Juju, Ubuntu Server, LXD, and Ubuntu Core.
• Examples of Linux server technologies include KVM virtualization and LXC containers.
• Examples of network technologies include PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, and NTP; controller protocols include Redfish, IPMI, and AMT.

Benefits and work environment

• The company describes a distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints and opportunities to travel to meet colleagues.
• Benefits include a USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, leave, and wellness support.

Compensation

• Compensation considers geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.