Software Engineer - App Stores

Software Engineer – App Stores at Canonical

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 initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. With more than 1,200 colleagues across 75+ countries, we build and operate a large system of backend services that power the Snap Store and Charmhub.io

marketplaces, primarily in Python and Golang.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source, Linux, and large‑scale web services. You will help scale our production architecture, expand the software catalog, and enhance offerings for IoT and large enterprise solutions.

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Write clean web service APIs to support CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
• Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

• You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public‑facing APIs and web applications using Python.
• You have a broad technology base but favor backend code and infrastructure.
• You know your way around relational and non‑relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.
• You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated.

Canonical is an equal‑opportunity employer and fosters 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.