Canonical recently made an announcement today that it is with vacancies for young professionals who are interested in improving the Ubuntu operating system, to be more specific, the vacancy is for a software engineer for the Ubuntu development team.
For anyone who imagined Canonical was ditching the Ubuntu desktop, a vacancy for this role shows that the company still cares about the segment that made the distro so popular.
According to the announcement, the company is looking for a software engineer to join the Ubuntu desktop team.
This team is responsible for delivering Ubuntu to traditional computers and home users, which is, in the words of the ad, "one of the most popular Linux-based operating systems today," stating that "Ubuntu claims to be the best Open Source based operating system of existence ', in the words of Canonical.
Uno One of the particular challenges of the "Ubuntu Desktop Team" is to keep all the packages that the company supports updated and with high quality of operation and security.
From packages that refer to more basic things in the system, such as network managers, bluetooth, audio network managers, to the GNOME Shell interface itself and the applications of the GNOME ecosystem.
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The announcement states that a successful software engineer in office must view the future of Ubuntu with passion and have a mindset. adjusted with the ideals of the Open Source model.
At the same time it has to have a broad and innovative organization, have good communication. According to the ad, being good at relationships is as substantial as being very good technically.
Work it also involves taking a few trips a year, generally lasting a whole week.
Work can be done from any home from home, anywhere in the worldHowever, if the person lives in Europe or is on the east coast of the United States (or in the same time zone) it would be preferable.
About the main responsibilities of the position
The vacancy lists some functions that the candidate must fulfill to exercise the function in the company, such as:
- Accompany and maintain some core components of Ubuntu Desktop, such as some already mentioned above in the text.
- This involves debugging complex issues from any package that Ubuntu and Canonical support, as well as working directly with development teams.
- Guarantee that the works are carried out with performance and quality.
- Working with Snap packages, tools involving Snap packages and their integration with Ubuntu Desktop.
- Work with other Canonical teams to deliver development agreed upon features and help bring these features to Ubuntu Desktop at every release, every six months, on schedule.
- When necessary, work responding to issues and problems involving end users and business users of the company.
Required skill and experience
- Every job vacancy has some prerequisites and elements that are well seen and mandatory, in this case it would be no different. Things that will be observed when hiring a new employee:
- A clear passion for the future of Ubuntu;
- A clear demonstration of the contribution with some open source project.
- A good experience with C / C ++, preferably in an Open Source project.
- Knowledge of technologies that make up Ubuntu Desktop such as GNOME, D-Bus, Xorg / Wayland, etc.
- Be up to date with open source development tools and the methodologies used to create Ubuntu, such as Git, Launchpad, packaging in .deb, apt, dpkg, debhelper, etc.
- Excellent logic, problem solving skills and bug analysis skills.
- Fluent English, especially technical English.
- Be comfortable with online communication and collaboration through email lists, IRC, and Wiki.
- Ability to be productive in a globally distributed project, being disciplined in relation to motivation, delivery agreements and deadlines.
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