Software Developer; Backend SaaS

Overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a founder-led, profitable, and growing organization with a distributed workforce. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

This role is remote within the Americas region.

Landscape is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, including package and repository management, health and security monitoring, hardware inventory, and automation. As a Landscape software engineer you will contribute on a distributed development team across all facets of the development process.

We are building the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise — on premise and on the public cloud — to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance and operations. This is an exciting opportunity to build a rewarding career with Canonical, a growing international software company.

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernize the Landscape codebase
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to code quality and automated testing
• Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews
• Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions
• Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• Assist with release management during each development cycle
• Collaborate with Dev Ops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical s hosted Landscape

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python
• Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django
• Experience with databases, and ORMs (Postgre
  
  SQL a plus)
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform

• 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
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, important open-source projects and a platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a high standard for people joining the company. Most colleagues have worked from home since our inception in 2004.

Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently and continuously improve.

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.