Microservices Engineer

Overview

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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 locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

This role 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 here if you are an outstanding engineer with clear views on APIs, microservice design, engineering processes and DevOps. Our services need to scale to handle millions of Ubuntu clients and collaboration across thousands of community members, and they are central to the health of critical infrastructure globally.

As Ubuntu has been adopted by mainstream enterprise computing through cloud and developer-centric strategy, the quality of these services has grown in importance. We aim to level up our practices, quality and performance in the web services domain, expanding our teams to improve scalability, performance, resilience and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• 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 our 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

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What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits aligned with our values. We balance programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

About Canonical

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 have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster 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.

EEO Statement : Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.

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