Software Developer; Backend SaaS

Overview

Join Canonical as a Software Developer (Backend SaaS) to build the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise, enabling large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance, and operations.

The role is remote, based in the Americas region, working on the Landscape platform—a leading tool for deploying, monitoring, and managing fleets of Ubuntu systems. The distributed team collaborates on all stages of development, from code and architecture reviews to release management.

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs, and modernize the Landscape codebase
• Demonstrate strong commitment to code quality and automated testing
• Participate in engineering processes with code and architectural reviews
• Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions
• Work remotely with global travel 2–4 weeks per year for internal and external events
• Assist with release management during each development cycle
• Collaborate with Dev Ops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical's hosted Landscape

• Love technology and thrive working with brilliant people
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• 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 (Postgre
  
  SQL a plus)
• Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform

• 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
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu—one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud—Canonical is changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.

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.