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Go (Golang) Software Engineer, Developer Tooling and Containers
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Go (Golang) Software Engineer role focused on Developer Tooling and Containers
- Remote position open to candidates in any APAC time zone
- Requires professional software development experience with Go, Python, C, or C++
- Includes an annual USD 2,000 personal learning and development budget
- Requires ability to travel internationally twice per year for up to two weeks for company events
- Senior candidates must have strong understanding of containers and underlying kernel semantics and capabilities
Role overview
Canonical, a leading open source software and Ubuntu provider, is hiring a Go (Golang) Software Engineer focused on Developer Tooling and Containers to build a new open-source developer experience tool. The role centers on reimagining traditional developer workflows to retain the benefits of Linux while supporting work in immutable distro environments and with remote cloud resources, with the tool deeply integrated with Ubuntu desktop, modern IDEs, and SDKs from major silicon providers like NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD, targeting use cases across Robotics, MLOps, and IoT to make Ubuntu the leading platform for software engineers. The role is fully remote, open to candidates in any APAC time zone, and requires in-person travel twice a year for up to two weeks for company events. The team prioritizes intellectual honesty, peer reviews, and clear, maintainable code, and the role involves end-to-end work on tool capabilities from user experience design to implementation with a focus on correctness, performance, quality, and security, as well as collaboration with internal and external teams.
Responsibilities
- Design the user experience of new capabilities in the tool
- Write high-quality code to create new features
- Obsess with correctness and robustness of your work for diverse use cases
- Go the extra mile in making sure the software you create addresses a well-defined problem
- Think carefully through implementation strategy from the perspective of performance, quality and security
- Work with teams both inside and outside of Canonical
Requirements
- Professional software development experience using Go, Python, C, or C++
- Knowledge of Linux system-level fundamentals, for example, cgroups and namespaces
- Curious, thoughtful, articulate, and accountable
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
- Located in an APAC time zone (the remote role can be filled from anywhere in APAC time zones)
- Senior-level candidates for this role must have a strong understanding of containers and the kernel semantics and capabilities that underpin them
Nice to have
- Experience with LXC/LXD
- Experience with AI/ML and/or CUDA/OpenVINO
- Knowledge of system and language package managers internals
Benefits
- Compensation is shaped by geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews (more frequent 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
- 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, as well as industry leaders in many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles; teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- Canonical is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
- The role involves building a new open-source developer experience tool that rethinks typical developer workflows to preserve what people love about traditional Linux while enabling better work in immutable distro environments and with remote cloud resources.
- The tool is deeply and securely integrated with Ubuntu desktop, modern IDEs, and SDKs from publishers including NVIDIA, Intel, AMD and others.
- The ultimate goal of the tool is to free developers from the hours of tedious environment setup across multiple industry domains such as Robotics, MLOps, and IoT.
- The role implies a deep interest in crafting tools for software engineers, and will benefit from experience with professional Linux based software development, Linux system-level fundamentals and containers.
- As a team, Canonical values intellectual honesty in decision-making, peer reviews, and writing clear and maintainable code.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer, proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination; diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products, and all applications receive fair consideration regardless of identity.
- The job posting was originally published on Himalayas.