Microservices Engineer

Microservices Engineer at Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is heavily utilized in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT, powering millions of clients worldwide. With 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, the company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, offering short on‑site sprints in person while the rest of the work is done remotely.

The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing, offering general selection tracks for teams focused on back‑end REST API microservices engineering in Go and Python across all seniority levels.

We are looking for outstanding engineers with clear, well‑articulated views on APIs, microservice design, engineering processes, and Dev Ops. Our services must scale to handle millions of Ubuntu clients and support collaboration across thousands of community members, making scalability, performance, resilience, and proactive security analysis critical.

• 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

Microservices teams have open roles in every time zone. We value flexibility and encourage global collaboration.

• 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

• 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 going above‑and‑beyond 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 tech 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 team sprints in person
• 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 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 very high standard for people joining the company.

Most colleagues at Canonical work from home since our inception in 2004.

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.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level |
Employment type: Full‑time |
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology |
Industry: Software Development