Golang Engineer at Canonical - Remote, zone

Golang Engineer at Canonical - Remote, Any Timezone — Remote

Canonical is one of the most nomad-friendly employers in tech. The company has operated as a fully distributed, remote-first organization since 2004, with 1,200+ employees across 80+ countries. Roles are explicitly open in every time zone, which is a strong indicator of genuine async flexibility rather than "remote" meaning you must work US or EU hours.

Timezone flexibility: Because teams are globally distributed and Canonical explicitly recruits across all time zones, there are no hard timezone lock-ins stated. This makes the role highly compatible with a nomadic lifestyle — you can base yourself in Southeast Asia, Latin America, or Eastern Europe without schedule conflicts.

Visa considerations: With no country restrictions, you have access to a wide range of digital nomad visas. Strong options include:

• Portugal (D8 visa): Lisbon is a top nomad hub — your USD salary goes further than in Western Europe, with monthly costs around $1,800–2,500.
• Thailand (LTR Visa or METV): Bangkok or Chiang Mai offer costs of $800–1,400/month — excellent value for a tech salary.
• Colombia (Digital Nomad Visa): Medellín costs around $1,000–1,600/month with a thriving tech community.

Travel perks are a standout: Canonical offers twice-yearly in-person team sprints, Priority Pass lounge access, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events — genuinely valuable perks for frequent travelers. The $2,000 annual L&D budget could also cover coworking memberships or tech gear.

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very 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 more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles.

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring Golang engineers of all levels of seniority, for all relevant teams er the first round of interviews we'll find the best fit product team at Canonical for you to progress your application based on your personal interests.

Canonical prefers Golang for software where performance and security are primary considerations. We also have substantial projects in Python, C, C++ and are starting to invest in Rust. For front-end development we prefer React and Flutter.

Golang is an essential language for our engineering teams, who build the systems that deliver Ubuntu to the world. From our software distribution systems, to those which build and test every possible kind of open source on every architecture, from our systems management tools to our distributed systems operations R&D, we count on Golang for its tasteful concurrency and developer ecosystem.

Juju, Livepatch, LXD, MAAS, Microk8s, Snapd, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Pro, and many more Canonical offerings include Golang components.

We also want to ensure that Ubuntu is the very best platform for Golang development, offering easy access to the widest range of tooling and capabilities that support cutting edge open source and enterprise development.

Join us in our mission to deliver innovative open-source solutions to individuals and enterprises around the world. We expect the highest engineering standards and strong motivation to get things done well in a fully remote and distributed environment. These roles require extensive personal…