Golang System Software Engineer - Containers/Virtualisation
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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. Our customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company pioneers global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office‑based roles.
Teams meet two to four times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.
The LXD team’s mission is to build a next‑generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data‑center‑scale cloud that "just works" and provides a mission‑critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments. We are hiring a Golang software engineer to work on low‑level Go code between our REST API and the low‑level C libraries used to manage containers and virtual machines.
We look for system‑level developers with experience in design and data management/modeling. LXD components span the entire software stack from low‑level kernel features to the upper‑level management API/CLI. The most effective engineers are fluent in all these layers and can anticipate the consequences of design and engineering choices across a complex distributed system.
This is an opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact on modern cloud computing technologies. Canonical offers a fun, fast‑paced team environment and a career full of learning and development.
Location:
This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.
What you will focus on Design, implement and document system‑level Go code
Model data, design database schema and implement data storage in a dqlite (SQL) database
Maintain code quality through static analysis, unit and system tests
Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks/year for internal and external events
What we are looking for in you Experience programming in Go and C
Knowledgeable in networking and storage technologies
Experience with two or more of: cloud computing, virtualisation, containers, distributed systems, open source community
Curious, flexible, articulate and accountable
Values soft skills and is enterprising, thoughtful and self‑motivated
Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
What we offer you 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, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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.
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