by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build the automation and tooling that makes high performance computing feel less like wizardry and more like a reliable product. If you write clean Python, love precision, and get excited about clusters, kernels, and ruthless efficiency, this role is built for you.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide. They are founder led, profitable, and remote first since 2004, with teammates across 70+ countries. The HPC team is focused on delivering a world class HPC experience across bare metal and public cloud as part of the Ubuntu platform.
Schedule
- Fully remote (Americas; role may also be filled in EMEA depending on need)
- Work in a globally distributed team with strong async communication
- Travel required up to 4 times per year for internal events
What You’ll Do
• Write high quality, rigorously designed Python software to automate key HPC software and workflows
• Help deliver and maintain charms that deploy and manage HPC clusters and related packages
• Debug complex issues and ship clean fixes across the stack, from tooling to packaging and beyond
• Contribute documentation and best practices for authoring reliable operators
• Collaborate with teammates to design practical solutions for real cluster operations
What You Need
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in CS, STEM, or related field
• Strong experience writing modern, maintainable Python
• Comfort in open source environments and interest in building with the community
• Curiosity, accountability, and solid communication in a remote, distributed team
• Experience in at least two areas such as Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Go, or Debian packaging
• Strong academic performance in math and science, with an exceptional academic track record preferred
• Willingness to travel for team events
Benefits
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly in person team sprints
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues, plus Priority Pass and long haul travel upgrades
If HPC is your kind of hard and you want your work to ship as part of Ubuntu’s global platform, don’t wait.
Bring the precision. Bring the curiosity. Let’s make clusters feel effortless.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Lead engineers building data infrastructure that runs anywhere: Kubernetes, public cloud, or on prem. If you’ve shipped production data systems at scale and you love growing people while still getting your hands in the code, Canonical wants you.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, IoT, and enterprise. Remote first since 2004, they operate globally with a high bar for engineering quality and ownership. The Data Platform org is focused on making it easy to run any database on any cloud, reliably and at scale.
Schedule
- Fully remote, worldwide
- Role can be filled in EMEA or any Americas time zone
- Global travel twice yearly for internal sprints (1 to 2 weeks per event)
What You’ll Do
• Lead a team building scalable data solutions for Kubernetes and cloud machines
• Hire, coach, mentor, and develop engineers, setting a strong culture of quality and delivery
• Contribute code directly when needed and lead by example as a technical manager
• Set expectations and coordinate execution with senior leadership, other engineering teams, and stakeholders
• Advocate agile development practices and drive strong engineering standards around performance and reliability
• Build and maintain a healthy, collaborative culture aligned with Canonical’s values
• Partner with other leaders across the organization to deliver products users trust in production
What You Need
• Software engineering background, ideally with Python (Golang a plus)
• Experience operating systems in production at scale, preferably Big Data or MySQL focused
• Strong judgment about people: motivation, growth, performance, and long term fit
• Track record building high quality open source software and driving excellent engineering practices
• Comfort pushing into new technologies and raising the bar on what “good” looks like
• Genuine love for developing people and building teams that win together
Benefits
• Fully remote environment (remote first since 2004)
• USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Travel to global sprints, plus Priority Pass and long haul travel upgrades
This is a leadership seat with real leverage. If you want to build data products that make operating infrastructure easier for everyone, don’t overthink it.
Step into the role where your team ships systems the world depends on.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
If you love solving messy real world infrastructure problems and turning them into clean, repeatable reference architectures, this is your lane. You’ll work directly with Canonical’s biggest partners and help them ship joint solutions that actually work in the wild.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and powers open source platforms used across cloud, AI, and the edge. They are founder led, profitable, and remote first since 2004, with teammates across 70+ countries. This role sits at the intersection of deep technical credibility and partner facing strategy.
Schedule
- Fully remote, worldwide (home based)
- Partner facing role with global collaboration and async work habits
- Travel required up to 30% for partner engagements and team events
What You’ll Do
• Architect cloud and data center solutions using Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubeflow, and Spark across on prem and public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Help partners design joint solutions that run Canonical technologies in the data center and on public clouds
• Integrate and validate open source components like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, and NGINX
• Design and publish joint reference architectures and run technical validations with alliance partners
• Lead onboarding sessions and workshops with partner teams, including demos and technical deep dives
• Translate customer environments and constraints into practical, secure, scalable designs
What You Need
• Extensive Linux experience (Ubuntu preferred), plus strong Kubernetes, Ceph, and automation fundamentals
• Experience designing and implementing solutions on public cloud or private cloud environments
• Working knowledge of Python and Bash, plus strong troubleshooting instincts
• Fluent written and spoken English, with sharp presentation and partner communication skills
• High follow through, ability to juggle multiple partner threads, and reliability on commitments
• Comfort in customer facing work: pitching, demonstrating, discovery, and technical advising
• Curiosity for newer Canonical tech like LXD, Juju, and Snaps
• Degree in a technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
Benefits
• Annual compensation review plus performance driven bonus
• USD 2,000 per year learning and development budget
• Distributed work environment with twice yearly in person team sprints
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Global travel opportunities, plus Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul events
Roles like this don’t stay open forever. If you can speak cloud, kernel, and business in the same sentence, move.
Go help partners build the kind of open source solutions that don’t collapse under real usage.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
Help protect Ubuntu users and the open source community by tracking, fixing, and shipping security patches that matter. You’ll join a globally distributed team that works fast, documents well, and treats security like a craft.
About Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and builds open source platforms used across cloud, AI, IoT, and enterprise. They are founder led, profitable, and built for distributed work, with teammates across 75+ countries. The security team’s mission is simple: make the ecosystem safer, one vulnerability at a time.
Schedule
- Fully remote, worldwide (home based)
- Work effectively with a globally distributed team (strong async habits and self direction)
- International travel required 2 to 4 times per year for in person team events (typically 1 to 2 weeks total per event cycle; at least two trips per year is expected)
What You’ll Do
• Analyze, fix, and test vulnerabilities in open source packages
• Monitor and triage new and existing vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu ecosystem using internal tools
• Coordinate patches and remediation with upstream developers and Ubuntu community teams
• Audit source code for security issues and document findings clearly
• Build features, tools, and security improvements that strengthen Ubuntu overall
What You Need
• Strong grasp of common vulnerability classes and practical remediation techniques
• Familiarity with coordinated disclosure and responsible vulnerability handling
• Comfort working in open source workflows and development methodologies
• Proficiency in at least one language: C, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby, PHP, or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Solid Linux experience (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Clear communication, sound judgment, and strong troubleshooting instincts
• Professional maturity: curiosity, accountability, and effectiveness across cultures
Benefits
• Annual compensation review, plus performance driven bonus or commission
• USD 2,000 per year learning and development budget
• Distributed work environment with in person team sprints
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program and wellness platform
• Travel opportunities to meet colleagues, plus long haul travel upgrades and Priority Pass perks
If you want a security role where your work ships to millions and your team trusts you to own the problem, don’t sit on this.
Bring your craft, your curiosity, and your receipts. Canonical will give you the scale.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build reliable backend systems that ship daily, stay monitored, and don’t fall apart under real traffic. If you’re strong in APIs, DevOps minded, and you like owning a subsystem end-to-end, Nightwatch is basically calling your name.
About Nightwatch
Nightwatch is a bootstrapped SaaS company building forward-thinking SEO and AI performance tools for internet professionals. They’re fully remote, intentionally low-meeting, and serious about craft: code reviews, tests, CI/CD, and shipping without bureaucracy.
Schedule
- Full-time or Part-time
- Remote: Yes (work from anywhere)
- Hours: Fully flexible, choose your own schedule
- Collaboration: Daily Slack updates (written stand-ups), two weekly conference calls
- Workflow: Kanban
- Expectation: Own your work, be proactive, and take responsibility for the systems you build
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain performant, well-tested, well-monitored APIs and backend services
- Design efficient data flows and robust web application infrastructure
- Implement automated tests across the stack and keep CI/CD pipelines healthy
- Spin up and manage servers for deployments and operational reliability
- Build and maintain concurrent background job systems and message-queue patterns
- Write clear internal and user documentation
- Own a subsystem end-to-end: from design through production stability
- Contribute to a major architecture overhaul: moving from uncached relational DB querying to a scalable streaming architecture using Kafka and ClickHouse
- Work with production tooling and infrastructure (Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible, AWS services, Grafana, Kafka, ClickHouse)
What You Need
- Advanced programming experience in at least a couple of: Go, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Bash
- Ruby on Rails experience
- Comfort with functional programming concepts
- Strong Linux shell proficiency
- Ability to spin up servers and make them deploy-ready
- Strong belief in automated tests and ability to implement them across the stack
- Experience designing deploy flows and continuous integration
- Strong database knowledge: key-value stores, SQL, relational DBs (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience building robust background job systems with concurrency patterns and message queues
- Fluent English with consistent daily communication
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
Benefits
- Work from anywhere with completely flexible hours
- Generous vacation time (family and travel friendly)
- Team building events around the world
- High trust, low overhead, ship-every-day environment with strong engineering standards
They’re building for the long haul, not the “here for the bag” crowd. If that’s you, step up.
Share your CV, why you want in, and the software you’re most proud of (and why).
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build fast, clean, high-performing SPAs for internet pros and obsess over UX like it’s your love language. If you’re the type who can spot a browser bottleneck, fix it, test it, and still care how it feels to use, this team will make sense.
About Nightwatch
Nightwatch builds SEO and AI performance tracking tools for fast-growing teams who want to scale and compete in search. They’re bootstrapped, fully remote, and intentionally building a smaller-company culture focused on autonomy, flexibility, craft, and long-term team fit.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes (100%)
- Hours: Flexible, choose your own schedule
- Collaboration: Daily Slack updates, two weekly conference calls
- Workflow: Kanban
- Expectation: Own your time, stay accountable, and help keep an eye on production health and incidents
What You’ll Do
- Build advanced SPA web applications with strong UX and performance focus
- Write clean, maintainable JavaScript and CSS, including scalable CSS architectures
- Inspect and resolve browser performance bottlenecks
- Work with modern front-end frameworks (Ember.js is the primary one, or learn it fast)
- Implement responsive UI and data visualizations
- Write unit and integration tests for front-end features
- Occasionally touch backend code when needed and help support production operations
What You Need
- Advanced knowledge of modern JavaScript
- Advanced CSS skills, including maintainable CSS architecture patterns
- Strong familiarity with layout libraries (Bootstrap, Tailwind, or similar)
- Excellent UX instincts and attention to product details
- Ember.js experience or genuine willingness and ability to learn it quickly
- Solid experience writing front-end tests (unit and integration)
- Self-driven and disciplined working remotely with a distributed team
Benefits
- 100% remote team with high autonomy and flexibility
- Relaxed, small-team environment with highly skilled developers
- Strong emphasis on craftsmanship, maintainability, and testing
- A culture that values personal growth, education, compassion, and long-term team fit
They’re clearly hiring for craft and commitment, not job-hoppers. If that’s you, move.
Send your CV plus proof of work (open source, proud projects, or a portfolio) and tell them what you’ll bring.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Build a modern PWA that powers productivity apps across web and multiple platforms, using React as the common framework. If you love clean component architecture, performance tuning, and shipping features that people actually use daily, this one’s worth a look.
About Checklist
Checklist builds productivity apps across Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and web. They lean heavily on React to keep a shared framework across platforms, and they run as a fully remote team that values independence, creativity, and ownership.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes
- Hours: Not specified (team is fully remote)
- Time zones: Not specified
- Expectations: Collaborative development, quality-first engineering, and building maintainable UI systems
What You’ll Do
- Develop a new Progressive Web App (PWA) using React.js
- Build reusable components and front-end libraries designed for use across multiple platforms
- Translate designs and wireframes into high-quality, maintainable code
- Optimize UI components for performance across devices and browsers
- Practice test-driven development using tools like Jest and Cypress
- Collaborate with teammates working across different layers of the product and infrastructure
What You Need
- Strong React.js experience and comfort with common patterns and workflows (Redux, Sagas)
- ES6+ and TypeScript experience
- Familiarity with data structure libraries (like Immutable.js)
- Experience integrating RESTful APIs
- Experience with Firebase SDKs (Firestore and Auth)
- Comfort with modern front-end tooling (Git, Babel, Webpack, NPM, Jest, Cypress, redux dev tools)
- Strong written and spoken English
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and ship clean solutions
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment
- Ownership and room to grow into bigger responsibilities
- Opportunity to help build a shared library framework used across their apps
- Space for independence, ideas, and creative problem solving
They’re looking for experienced React devs. If you’ve got the chops, don’t sit on it.
This is the kind of role where strong engineers get to leave fingerprints all over the product.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Help build and automate the cloud foundation behind a major healthcare data platform, where reliability and security actually affect real people. If you love Azure + Terraform and you can make Databricks behave at scale, you’ll have real ownership here.
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a healthcare performance improvement company focused on measurable, data-informed results for healthcare organizations. Their work blends data platforms, analytics, and domain expertise to help teams improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. They’re remote-first and invest heavily in culture, inclusion, and professional growth.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes (U.S. only)
- Travel: None anticipated
- On-call: Participation in a 24×7 rotation for critical platform services
- Note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and operate the cloud foundations that support the Ignite platform and internal engineering systems
- Deploy and manage Azure and Databricks infrastructure using Terraform and automated pipelines
- Build and maintain platform automation tools for provisioning, configuration, and environment management
- Manage Databricks workspaces including networking, access control, and compute configuration
- Improve reliability, observability, and scalability through proactive monitoring and automation
- Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform tooling into CI/CD workflows
- Contribute to code reviews, mentor teammates, and help drive strong engineering practices across the platform
What You Need
- 3+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (Azure preferred)
- 1+ year of Databricks experience, including workspace setup, networking, access control, compute config, and Terraform automation
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, plus comfort with CLI and scripting for provisioning and config
- Azure DevOps experience, including YAML pipelines, templates, and environment deployments
- Solid networking knowledge (VNets, subnets, private endpoints, NAT, DNS, routing)
- Security and governance experience including secure access patterns, secrets management, and compliance-minded engineering
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD, source control workflows, automated testing, and promotion across environments
- Scripting and automation ability (PowerShell, SQL, YAML, and similar)
Benefits
- Remote-first work environment
- Flexible PTO
- Professional development stipend
- Best-in-class benefits designed to support work-life balance and long-term growth
- Strong culture of inclusion and team member support
Posted earlier. Roles like this move quietly, so don’t overthink it.
If you want a cloud role where automation and platform reliability are the mission, this is a strong swing.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Help integrate and modernize telecom and networking systems that support FAA programs where reliability is non-negotiable. If you’re strong in IP networking details and can translate complex technical work into clear documentation, this role is a solid match.
About LS Technologies (A Tetra Tech Company)
LS Technologies supports Federal Government agencies with engineering, technical, and professional services that strengthen national infrastructure. As part of Tetra Tech, they bring deep technical expertise and a public service mission focused on safety, reliability, and innovation.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes (U.S. only)
- Hours: Standard business hours (flexibility as needed)
- Travel: 0% to 25% for site visits and collaboration with FAA teams
- Background: Must be able to pass a government Public Trust investigation
What You’ll Do
- Develop and review technical documents, plans, and guidance materials supporting FAA programs
- Perform technology evaluations and support testing and evaluation efforts
- Execute independent verification and validation (IV&V) support
- Build and support system modeling as needed for program planning and execution
- Develop strategic plans, program management plans, and policy support documentation
- Conduct technical analyses and feasibility assessments to support decision-making
- Provide enterprise integration support across programs, projects, and systems
- Provide technical leadership for contract staff executing support activities
- Review IP configurations and generate accurate IP supplemental forms, including subnetting details
- Support networking requirements like VPN configuration understanding, firewall rule awareness, and related pre-submission ordering details
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Math, or Science (experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
- 11+ years of relevant work experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence external stakeholders
- Solid IP networking background, including accurate subnetting and configuration review
- Working knowledge of VPN configurations and an understanding of firewall rules and networking requirements prior to submission
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds on occasion and work around equipment and server room environments when required
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Annual Leave, and Paid Holidays
Hiring is ongoing. Apply while this role is still open.
If you’re ready to lead integration work that keeps critical FAA systems connected and compliant, this is a strong opportunity.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Help keep FAA cloud environments secure, stable, and compliant while handling real-world incidents that actually matter. If you like troubleshooting under pressure, tightening perimeter defense, and making cloud security feel less like chaos, this role fits.
About LS Technologies (A Tetra Tech Company)
LS Technologies supports Federal Government agencies with engineering, technical, and professional services that strengthen national infrastructure. As part of Tetra Tech, they combine deep technical expertise with a public service mission focused on safety, reliability, and innovation.
Schedule
- Full-time
- Remote: Yes (U.S. only)
- Hours: 11:00am to 8:00pm Eastern (Second Shift)
- Travel: Up to 10%
- Expectation: Tier 2/3 cloud security and network support for FAA development tenants, with responsive ticket and incident handling
- Background: Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust
What You’ll Do
- Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues, application errors, and outages across cloud and hybrid environments
- Provide cloud security and network operations support, resolving incidents and responding to service desk tickets quickly
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Datadog for cloud performance and security monitoring
- Support secure web gateway and Zero Trust access through Zscaler
- Assist with network security devices, including Palo Alto firewalls, VPNs, and intrusion prevention systems
- Support secure hybrid connectivity, including routing, subnets, and access controls
- Implement and monitor cloud-native controls like IAM, encryption, logging, and intrusion detection
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to remediate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance findings under FAA and federal guidelines
- Maintain documentation for cloud security and network configurations, firewall rule sets, and troubleshooting procedures
- Support compliance efforts tied to NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, and Zero Trust frameworks
- Contribute to incident response investigations, escalating and resolving security events as needed
- Collaborate with engineers, developers, and DevOps teams to integrate security and firewall best practices into deployments
- Provide Tier 2/3 support for infrastructure, automation tools, and development environments
What You Need
- 5+ years of progressive IT experience, including 2+ years supporting cloud security and network operations
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience in network configuration, firewall administration, and Palo Alto firewall support
- Strong working knowledge of NIST, FedRAMP, and Zero Trust security frameworks
- Experience troubleshooting cloud and network environments and providing Tier 2 or Tier 3 support
- Ability to manage and resolve service desk tickets in a timely manner
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust background check
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Annual Leave, and Paid Holidays
Second shift role. If 11:00am to 8:00pm ET works for you, don’t wait.
This is a strong remote opportunity for someone who can secure cloud environments and keep operations humming.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
