Linux Software Build and Packaging Engineer

Pay Rate: $80.00/hr to $86.00/hr on (T4)

Location: Markham, ON (Canada)

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

Bachelors (or greater) in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or similar program with a focus on Software Engineering covering at least the following topics:

• Object-oriented programming

• Computer and software architecture

• Operating systems

• Parallel and asynchronous processing

• Software performance analysis and optimization

• Introduction into computer hardware architecture

Experience Required:

• Experience writing clean, well tested, maintable code in an enterprise organization and/or in well established open-source community environment

• Experience with the full software development life cycle

• Experience delivering production quality software engineering solutions on schedule

• Familiarity with C and C++ programming, with Bash and Python scripting skills being a strong plus (experience with Rust is considered to be a good add-on)

• Extensive experience with Linux software development and tooling (bash, gcc, make, cmake, autotools, etc.), with Linux system administration and networking skills being a strong plus

• Extensive experience with multiple Linux distributions and multiple package managers (rpm, dpkg, apt, yum, dnf, zypper, etc.), with working knowledge of building and packaging custom Linux kernels being a strong plus

• Experience working with one or more of the following APIs is extremely desirable: OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenCL, ROCm, Linux kernel user space and kernel space APIs, DKMS

• Experience with source code control systems, with knowledge of git and gerrit being a strong plus

• Familiarity with Linux hypervisors such as KVM

• Familiarity with CI/CD and container technologies

• Exposure to working with open source community, as it relates to packaging according to distribution requirements

• Excellent analytical, debugging and trouble-shooting skills

• Effective organizational, communication and problem-solving skills