Software Engineer - Industrial IoT at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s 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 - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer - Industrial IoT

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

• This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open-source software, Linux, edge computing, and IoT.
• Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
• Your role will be to help us provide easy-to-deploy, secure, and customizable industrial edge solutions. You will work on designing and implementing applications that run on constrained IoT devices to powerful gateways. Embedded systems and Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges.
• In our team, we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration/unit testing and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform are required. 

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by upstream and/or other engineers at Canonical
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade IoT solutions
• Work on Matter, the connectivity standard unifying smart homes
• Contribute to the development of IoT platforms
• Participate in IoT standardisation working group discussions and planning (Connectivity Standards Alliance, Web of Things, etc)
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

• Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.
• You have experience working with RESTful APIs, MQTT or other messaging protocols
• You are familiar with wireless communication protocols such as WiFi, BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Thread
• You have interest and experience with a few of the following:
  • Containers (docker, kubernetes)
  • Linux distributions
  • Snap, Debian, or RPM packaging
  • Shell scripting
  • CI/CD (Github Actions, Gitlab CI, etc)
  • IoT frameworks and protocols
  • Real-time applications
• You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
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