C++ Graphics and Windowing System Software Engineer Full-time Job

What you will do

Design and implement features across the Mir stack

Assist in debugging, tracking down and fixing issues

Improve tests and performance benchmarks to catch issues early

Create documentation to enhance the developer experience

Engage with the open source community and commercial partners

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team

Required Skills And Experience

You have excellent, modern C++ programming taste

You have a rigorous approach to software design, development and testing

You have a solid understanding of asynchronous programming and concurrency patterns

You have strong written and verbal communication skills to document and present software developed

You are productive collaborating remotely and are highly motivated and organized

You are familiar with Linux as a development and deployment platform

You have proven ability to consistently deliver robust code to production

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

Desirable Skills And Experience

Experience with the Wayland protocol ecosystem and compositors

Familiarity with a range of Linux Desktop Environments

Familiarity with OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics and animation frameworks

You have experience developing and deploying on a Ubuntu/Debian system

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.