Microservices Engineer

Microservices Engineer – Canonical

Join us as a Microservices Engineer and help build high‑performance, scalable back‑end services for Ubuntu, the world’s leading open‑source operating system. Canonical is a global, founder‑led tech company that serves enterprises, public cloud, AI, data science, IoT, and more.

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Microservices teams have open roles in every time zone. Work from home with global travel twice a year for company events.

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

• Write high‑quality, well‑designed, robust software that scales
• Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review
• Write tests to 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 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

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of exceeding expectations
• Proficiency in Python and/or Go
• History of writing modern, maintainable software
• Experience with relational and non‑relational database systems
• 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, and accountability
• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self‑motivation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result‑oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

• Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Understanding of build systems and tool chains
• Experience with cross‑compilation
• Experience with hyperscale public clouds and/or private clouds
• Experience with designing, building, and running distributed systems
• Performance engineering and security experience

• 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
• 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 that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud. We recruit on a global basis and hold a very high standard for people joining the company.

Canonical is an equal‑opportunity employer. We aim 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.