Microservices Engineer

About Canonical
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 interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution.

We are founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

Location
Microservices teams with open roles in every time zone.

Key Areas of Interest

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

What Your Day Will Look Like

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 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

What We Are Looking For

An exceptional academic track record from high school and university

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about an 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

Additional Skills You Might Also Bring

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

What We Offer You

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

Equal Opportunity Employer
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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