Performance Engineer - Open Source

Job Description

Canonical is seeking a Performance Engineer to enhance software performance, correctness, and efficiency. This role involves working within Canonical's engineering teams, contributing to open source projects like Ubuntu, and optimizing performance across various software layers. The Performance Engineer will collaborate with global colleagues, strengthen testing capabilities, and analyze systems to improve performance and scalability.

The role involves:

• Driving software performance and correctness in a specific project
• Collaborating with colleagues and community around the globe
• Working on shared tools and infrastructure for performance measurement, analysis, and reporting
• Teaching, training and developing skills in your team for performance culture and design
• Strengthening test capabilities, harnesses and pipelines
• Analyzing systems and code to understand performance and scalability
• Solving problems directly or through influence, leadership and skills development
• Reviewing code and technical designs

Requirements include:

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics
• Demonstrable personal initiatives to measure and improve performance, efficiency and correctness in code
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Leadership and commitment to skills development and mentorship
• Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
• The work ethic and confidence to shine alongside motivated colleagues
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
• Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long

Canonical offers:

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events