Microservices Engineer

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and 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.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

This is a general selection track for teams that focus on back-end REST API microservices engineering in Go and Python. It covers all levels of seniority. Apply here if you are already an outstanding engineer with crisp and well-articulated views on APIs, microservice design, engineering processes and DevOps.

Our services need to scale to handle millions of Ubuntu clients, and collaboration across thousands of community members. They are also central to the health of critical infrastructure across the globe. As Ubuntu has been embraced by mainstream enterprise computing through the adoption of cloud and developer-centric tech strategy, the quality of these services has become more important to customers and users.

While Ubuntu has been enormously successful and in many senses leads the industry, we think we can substantially improve our practices, quality and performance in the web services domain. We are growing our teams, and in doing so we aim to level up our insights on scalability, performance, resilience and DevOps practices.

Key areas of interest for us are:

API design, documentation, and governance

Database performance design considerations and skills

Multi-region service delivery for resilience and performance

Fuzzing and other proactive security analysis techniques

Tracing and profiling for distributed systems insights

Next-generation DevOps practices

Location : we have microservices teams with open roles in every time zone.

What your day will look like

Write high-quality, well-designed, and robust software that works at scale

Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review

Write tests that validate software behaviour

Build and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant applications and services

Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team

Display technical leadership internally and within our external communities

Debug issues and produce high-quality solutions to resolve them

Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind

Discuss, contribute to, and collaborate across teams at Canonical

Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events

What we are looking for in you

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

Proficiency in Python and / or Go

History of writing modern, maintainable software

Experience with relational and non-relational database systems

Continuous integration and continuous delivery experience

Experience with systems programming or scalable web services

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

Additional skills that you might also bring

Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes

Understanding of build system