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 cloud, data science, AI, engineering, and IoT initiatives. Our customers include leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders across sectors. The company operates globally with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and has few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times per year in person at locations around the world to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
Canonical\'s Store team develops and operates a large system of backend services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are built primarily in Python, with a bit of Golang.
We have exciting challenges ahead including continuing to scale production architecture, expanding the range of software we deliver through the system powering our marketplaces, and enhancing our offering for IoT and large Enterprise solutions.
If you have a passion for clean APIs, a bias towards shipping, and believe that automated tests are key to higher velocity and reliability, you\'ll fit right in.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
- Write clean web service APIs to support both 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 general travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.
Who you are
- You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
- You have a broad technology base but favour 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.
About Canonical
Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu — the world’s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services help businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a global, remote-first company with professionals across many countries; most teams are remote by default.
What Canonical offers
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the 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 at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here challenges you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics under applicable law.
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