Software Developer; Backend SaaS

Join the Software Developer (Backend SaaS) role 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 widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company has 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries, is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

We are building the next‑generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise – on premise and on the public cloud – to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance, and operations. Landscape is the leading tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, and as a Landscape software engineer you will contribute on a distributed development team participating in all facets of the development process.

Location:

Remote in the Americas region.

• 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 the engineering process with code and architectural reviews.
• Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions.
• Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.
• Assist with release management during each development cycle.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical's hosted Landscape.

• You love technology and working with brilliant people.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated.
• You have a 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.

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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.