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IoT Data Engineer
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Role is fully remote, based in the EMEA region
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a related field
- Includes a USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget
- Requires occasional global travel (2-4 weeks per year, up to 4 times annually) for internal and external events
- Canonical is a founder-led, profitable, growing pre-IPO open source software company
- Role focuses on developing IoT telemetry and connectivity solutions integrated with the Snappy ecosystem for enterprise customers
Role overview
Canonical is a leading global provider of open source software and operating systems, best known for its widely used Ubuntu platform that supports enterprise initiatives including public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The founder-led, profitable, growing pre-IPO company operates as a fully distributed global team of 1200+ colleagues across 75+ countries, with minimal office-based roles and 2-4 in-person team sprints held annually in global locations. This is a remote EMEA-based software engineer role for professionals passionate about open source, Linux, and web services at scale, focused on advancing Canonical’s IoT leadership by building cutting-edge telemetry and connectivity solutions for its global SaaS services, integrating secure, reliable data streaming into the Snappy ecosystem to enable next-generation IoT development for enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- Work remotely with a globally distributed team, driving technical excellence and fostering innovation across diverse engineering environments
- Design, architect, and build high-performance APIs to power streaming data services, ensuring seamless integration across teams and products using Python and Go
- Develop robust governance, auditing, and management systems within our advanced telemetry platform, ensuring security, compliance, and operational integrity
- Partner with our infrastructure team to build scalable cloud-based SaaS solutions while also delivering containerized on-prem deployments for enterprise customers
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of new features, taking projects from specification to production, ensuring operational excellence at scale
- Provide technical oversight, review code and designs, and set best practices to maintain engineering excellence
- Engage in high-level technical discussions, collaborating on optimal solutions with engineers, product teams, and stakeholders
- Work remotely with occasional global travel (2-4 weeks per year) for internal and external events, fostering deeper collaboration and knowledge-sharing
- Enhance global SaaS services to provide customers with the essential data services needed to build the next generation of IoT devices effortlessly
Requirements
- This role is based remotely in the EMEA region, so candidates must be located in the EMEA region
- Ability to design and architect scalable backend services, messaging/data pipelines, and REST APIs using Go or Python, guiding best practices, technical direction, and system scalability
- Deep expertise in cybersecurity principles and the ability to proactively address complex IoT environment challenges including secure connectivity, data streaming, governance, and compliance
- Knowledge of IAM models, encryption, access control, and compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA) to ensure secure and compliant data handling
- Ability to design decentralized data ownership models to ensure interoperability and governance across domains
- Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency systems for IoT data processing
- Proficiency with data streaming technologies (MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Proficiency with observability tools (OpenTelemetry)
- Proficiency with industrial/engineering data exchange protocols (OPC-UA, ModBus)
- Ability to thrive in cross-functional environments, partnering with product teams, engineers, and stakeholders to drive high-impact technical solutions that align with business objectives
- Ability to mentor junior engineers, foster technical excellence, and contribute to a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing
- Willingness to embrace challenges with an open mind, continuously seeking opportunities to learn, improve, and innovate in a rapidly evolving IoT landscape
- Familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a related field
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Benefits
- Compensation is structured based on geographical location, experience, and performance worldwide, with annual compensation reviews (and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates) to recognize outstanding performance
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission in addition to base pay
- 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
- Access to the 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
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets, with its Ubuntu platform widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT
- Canonical's customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors
- Canonical is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles, with teams meeting 2-4 times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution
- Canonical’s engineering team is at the forefront of the IoT revolution, aiming to strengthen this position by developing cutting-edge telemetry and connectivity solutions, integrating reliable, secure, and robust data streaming capabilities into the Snappy ecosystem to set new industry standards for ease of development, implementation, management and security
- Canonical has an unparalleled commitment to data governance, ownership, and confidentiality, ensuring customers can innovate with confidence on top of the globally trusted Ubuntu platform
- Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source, publishes Ubuntu (one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud), recruits on a global basis, and sets a very high standard for people joining the company, expecting excellence from all team members
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since the company's inception in 2004; working at the company is designed to challenge employees to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise their performance
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer, proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination, with diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creating a better work environment and better products, and all applications receive fair consideration regardless of identity
- This role was originally posted on Himalayas