Location
This role will be based remotely in EMEA or the Americas regions. This job involves international travel several times a year, usually for one week at a time.

Job Overview
Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software‑defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source. In this role you will build engineering solutions to scale Ceph and other distributed storage systems in production, working closely with field teams to meet customer needs.

What your day will look like

Write high‑quality, rigorously designed Python and GoLang software

Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team

Debug issues and produce high‑quality code to fix them

Contribute to technical documentation that defines best practices for authoring high‑quality operators

Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

Develop and maintain software for delivery, operation and life‑cycle management of Ceph storage

What we are looking for in you

Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science, STEM or similar

Experience writing modern, maintainable Python

Experience with Ceph storage

Love for technology and working with brilliant people

Curious, adaptable, articulate, and accountable

Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated





Interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging

Exceptional academic track record from high school and preferably university

Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

Experience operating Ceph clusters in production

Experience with open‑source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar

What we offer you

Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly sprints in person (remote since 2004)

Personal learning and development budget of $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 from your team and others

Priority Pass for travel 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 create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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📌 Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Canonical
📍 Ciudad de México