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Site Reliability Engineer

Canonical, San Francisco, California, United States

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Site Reliability Engineer Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. We run hundreds of private cloud, Kubernetes clusters, and applications for customers across both physical and public cloud estates, identifying and addressing incidents, monitoring and observing applications, and enabling product refinement for high‑quality open source portfolio standards.

Location: Globally remote role.

We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to perfect enterprise infrastructure DevOps practices and raise the bar on automation across on‑prem and public cloud environments. Your work will encompass the entire stack—from bare‑metal networking and kernel up to Kubernetes and open source applications. You will be trained in core technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, security standards, and open source products including Kubeflow, Kafka, and OpenSearch.

Automation is a software engineering problem approached with a scientific mindset, driven by metrics and code.

Responsibilities Deploy and run OpenStack, Kubernetes, storage solutions, and open source applications, applying DevOps practices to mission‑critical services for global customers. Work as a software engineer fluent in Python, with a genuine interest in the full open‑source infrastructure stack and the ability to operate in a high‑availability environment.

Qualifications

Degree in software engineering or computer science

Python software development experience

Operational experience in Linux environments

Experience with Kubernetes deployment or operations

Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability

Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long

Bonus Skills

Familiarity with OpenStack deployment or operations

Familiarity with public cloud deployment or operations

Familiarity with private cloud management

Benefits

Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Every 6 months compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programs

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues

Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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