Specialty
The role
Canonical's general track for Python engineers across all teams and seniority levels. Teams own products that run on servers, Kubernetes, the desktop or as web services for Ubuntu clients. Remote roles in every time zone.
What you will do
- Write well-designed, well-tested Python software
- Collaborate with a globally distributed team
- Debug issues and write fixes
- Contribute to technical documentation
- Show technical leadership within Canonical and its communities
What they ask for
- Experience writing thoroughly designed, modern, maintainable Python
- Attention to detail and a focus on performance
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or another STEM subject, or a strong case for an alternative path
- Professional written and spoken English
- Self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Able to travel twice a year for company events of up to two weeks
- Nice to have: Docker, LXD or Kubernetes, Go, Rust or C, REST and gRPC APIs, SQL and NoSQL
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.
