Specialty
The role
Canonical's general track for back-end REST API microservice engineers working in Go and Python. The services must scale to millions of Ubuntu clients and community users. Open at all seniority levels, remote in every time zone.
What you will do
- Write well-designed software that works at scale
- Design APIs and software architecture for peer review
- Write tests that validate software behaviour
- Build reliable, fault-tolerant services
- Debug issues and write the fixes
- Contribute to technical documentation
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and/or Go
- History of writing modern, maintainable software
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery
- Experience with systems programming or scalable web services
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or another STEM subject, or a strong case for an alternative path
- Professional written and spoken English
- Able to travel twice a year for company events of up to two weeks
What they offer
- Fully distributed work, with in-person team sprints or company events
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review and a performance-driven annual bonus
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave plus maternity and paternity leave
- Employee assistance programme
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Canonical's careers page behind the apply button.
