Python Software Engineer Full-time Job

Key responsibilities

Maintain and develop new features to our Python based test automation tools like Checkbox, used by both in-house teams and industry partners.

Invent new ways to enable remote, automated testing.

Help build the software counterpart to in-house designed testing hardware to help test device enablement (graphics, hotplug, bluetooth, etc).

Write functional and performance tests to support hardware enablement and to protect from regressions.

Participate in meetings involving international travel 2-3 times per year.

Required Skills And Experience

Knowledge of Python programming language.

Quality oriented, pragmatic approach to software design and implementation.

Interest in test automation methodologies.

Previous experience working with Ubuntu or other Linux distributions.

Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team.

Desired Skills And Experience

Passion for tinkering: you are a maker.

Experience working in an agile environment.

Hardware testing experience, for example in the IoT space.

Familiarity with the C programming language.

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the worlds most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.