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Jobs at Canonical

Jobs at Canonical

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We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. If you’re interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.
Open Jobs

Software Engineer – Ubuntu Systems Management

What you’ll do

  • Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
  • Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernize the Landscape codebase
  • Demonstrate your 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 devops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical’s hosted Landscape

Who you are

  • 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 (PostgreSQL a plus)
  • You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platfor

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Software Engineering Manager – Launchpad

What You’ll Do

  • Grow and lead a team of engineers in your region
  • Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
  • Apply sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team’s goals
  • Create and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders
  • Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
  • Collaborate proactively with a distributed team and community
  • Lead the ongoing development of Launchpad, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built
  • Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
  • Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
  • Actively engage with the broader leadership team
  • Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who You Are

  • You have experience leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scale
  • You love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have an outstanding track record of doing so
  • You are knowledgeable and passionate about technology
  • You have experience delivering high quality software
  • You have experience designing and evolving complex distributed systems
  • You have effective written and verbal communication skills
  • You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

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Software Engineer – Launchpad

What You’ll Do

  • Proactively collaborate within and contribute to design, architecture, and feature-selection for solutions across distributed teams
  • Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests
  • Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes
  • Review code produced by other engineers
  • Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events

Who You Are

  • You love technology, working with brilliant people, and solving interesting problems
  • You are a strategic thinker
  • 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 delivering robust code to production, preferably written in Python.
  • You have experience and enjoy maintaining and improving large and mature web applications.
  • You have experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modelling.
  • You have an interest in, or experience with, integration, infrastructure and operations.
  • You believe that robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery.
  • You have familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
  • You have a solid understanding of the structure of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages.

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Senior Software Engineer – App Stores Backend

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 global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who You Are

  • 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.
  • You have a broad technology base but favor backend code and infrastructure.
  • You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python and/or Golang.
  • 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 a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.

 

 

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