Linux Cryptography and Security Engineer
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Summary
About the Role
About You
- Hands-on experience with low-level Linux cryptography APIs and debugging.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including prior experience with C development.
- Hands-on experience with Linux system administration and shell scripting.
- Demonstrated knowledge of security and cryptography fundamentals and experience writing secure code.
- Significant development experience working with open source libraries.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Prior experience working on FIPS/Common Criteria certified products.
- Experience with DISA-STIG or CIS benchmarks and related audit tooling.
- Experience working directly with the Linux Kernel.
- Prior experience with Python, OVAL, and Ansible.
- History of contributions to open source projects.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 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.
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
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 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 - 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. www.canonical.com