Microservices Engineer

Job description

Overview

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 innovation, and IoT.

Our customers include leading public cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders across sectors.

The company supports global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and few office-based roles.

Teams meet 2–4 times per year in person 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, covering all levels of seniority.

Apply if you are an outstanding engineer with clear, well-articulated views on APIs, microservice design, engineering processes and DevOps.

Our services scale to millions of Ubuntu clients and require collaboration across thousands of community members.

As Ubuntu adopts cloud and developer-centric strategies, the quality of these services is critical to customers and users.

We aim to improve practices, quality and performance in the web services domain and grow teams to raise insights on scalability, performance, resilience and DevOps.

Key areas of interest include:

• API design, documentation, and governance
• Database performance design considerations
• Multi-region service delivery for resilience and performance
• Fuzzing and proactive security analysis techniques
• Tracing and profiling for distributed systems insights
• Next-generation DevOps practices

Location : we have microservices teams with open roles in every time zone.

What your day will look like

• Write high-quality, well-designed, scalable software
• Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review
• Write tests that validate software behavior
• Build and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant applications and services
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
• Demonstrate technical leadership internally and within our external communities
• Debug issues and deliver high-quality solutions
• Contribute to technical documentation to make it outstanding
• Collaborate across Canonical teams
• Work from home with global travel for company events

What we are looking for in you

• Strong academic track record and undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go
• History of writing modern, maintainable software
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases
• 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, accountability
• Passion, thoughtfulness, self-motivation, and strong communication/presentation skills
• Result-oriented with ability to meet commitments
• Willingness to travel twice a year for company events

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Experience with container tech (LXD, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of build systems and toolchains
• Experience with cross-compilation
• Experience with hyperscale public or private clouds
• Experience with designing, building, and running distributed systems
• Performance engineering and security experience

What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.

We revisit compensation annually and offer a performance-driven annual bonus.

We provide all team members with additional benefits reflecting our values.

We balance programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
• 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
• Opportunities to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.

As the publisher of Ubuntu, a key open-source platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we recruit globally and maintain high standards.

Most colleagues 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

We do not discriminate on the basis of protected status.

This posting contains information for applicants and does not solicit candidates outside the positions described.

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