Golang Engineer
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Experience level: All levels of seniority
- Benefit: USD 2,000 annual learning and development budget
- Requirement: Extensive personal experience with Linux
- Compensation: Base pay plus performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems, most notably Ubuntu, serving global enterprise and technology markets including public cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and operates as a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with over 1200 colleagues in more than 80 countries. Canonical is hiring Golang engineers of all levels of seniority across all relevant teams. The role focuses on building systems that deliver Ubuntu to the world—ranging from software distribution and systems management to distributed systems operations R&D—ensuring Ubuntu remains the best platform for Golang development.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement well-tested and documented software in Go
- Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
- Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
- Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications
- Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
- In some cases, deploy and operate services developed by the team
- Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy
Requirements
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Well-organized, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Experience designing and writing high-quality Golang software on Linux
- Experience with and passion for Linux at the system level
- For more senior roles, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs
- 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
- Extensive personal experience with Linux - the more different versions of Linux the better!
Nice to have
- Experience developing for Ubuntu Linux
- Experience with Juju, LXD, Microk8s, Snapd, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Pro
- Performance engineering and security experience
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- 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 Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- Canonical prefers Golang for software where performance and security are primary considerations.
- The company also has substantial projects in Python, C, C++ and is starting to invest in Rust.
- For front-end development, Canonical prefers React and Flutter.
- Location: we have open roles for Golang engineers in every time zone
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
- Originally posted on Himalayas