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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 is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ 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.
This is a general selection track for teams that focus on back‑end REST API microservices engineering in Go and Python. It covers all levels of seniority. Apply if you are an outstanding engineer with clear views on APIs, microservice design, engineering processes, and Dev Ops.
Our services need to scale to handle millions of Ubuntu clients, and collaboration across thousands of community members. They are also central to the health of critical infrastructure worldwide. As Ubuntu has been embraced by mainstream enterprise computing through cloud and developer‑centric tech strategy, the quality of these services has become more important to customers and users.
While Ubuntu has been enormously successful, we aim to improve our practices, quality, and performance in the web services domain. We are growing our teams and aim to level up our insights on scalability, performance, resilience, and Dev Ops practices.
Key areas of interest for us are:
API design, documentation, and governance
Database performance design considerations and skills
Multi‑region service delivery for resilience and performance
Fuzzing and other proactive security analysis techniques
Tracing and profiling for distributed systems insights
Next‑generation Dev Ops practices
Location : microservices teams with open roles in every time zone.
What your day will look like
Write high‑quality, well‑designed, and robust software that works at scale
Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review
Write tests that validate software behaviour
Build and maintain reliable, fault‑tolerant applications and services
Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
Display technical leadership internally and within external communities
Debug issues and produce high‑quality solutions to resolve them
Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
Discuss, contribute to, and collaborate across teams at Canonical
Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events
What we are looking for in you
An exceptional academic track record from high school and university
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or compelling narrative about alternative path
Drive and a track record of going above‑and‑beyond expectations
Proficiency in Python and / or Go
History of writing modern, maintainable software
Experience with relational and non‑relational database systems
Continuous integration and continuous delivery experience
Experience with systems programming or scalable web services
Professional written and spoken English
Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Passion, thoughtfulness, and self‑motivation
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Result‑oriented, with personal drive to meet commitments
Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring
Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes
Understanding of build systems and tool chains
Experience with cross‑compilation
Experience with hyperscale public clouds and/ or private clouds
Experience with designing, building, and running distributed systems
Performance engineering and security experience
What we offer you
Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person
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