Software Engineer - App Stores

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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 across 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 an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Join Canonical to build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest in technology.

Canonical's Store team develops and operates a large system of backend services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are primarily built in Python, with some components in Golang.

We face exciting challenges ahead, including scaling our production architecture, expanding the range of software delivered through our marketplaces, and enhancing our offerings for IoT and large enterprise solutions.

If you are passionate about clean APIs, have a bias towards shipping, and believe automated tests are key to higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in.

What you'll do

1. Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
2. Write clean web service APIs to support CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
3. Design and implement new features from specifications to production and ongoing operations at scale.
4. Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
5. Discuss ideas and collaborate on solutions.
6. Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who you are

1. Proficient in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
2. Broad technology knowledge with a focus on backend code and infrastructure.
3. Experienced with relational and non-relational databases, capable of designing efficient data models and tuning queries.
4. Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
5. Strong academic background in Computer Science, STEM, or a related degree.
6. Passionate about technology and working with diverse talented people.
7. Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
8. Valuing soft skills, and passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.

About Canonical

Canonical is a growing, international software company working with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu—the world's #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realize the potential of free software for individuals and organizations. We help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique, remote-first, open-source tech company with 700 professionals across 50 countries. We are committed to being the best, not the biggest, global software company. With nearly all teams remote, we set the pace for the 21st-century digital workplace.

What Canonical offers:

As a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global open-source movement, publishing Ubuntu—an important open-source project and platform for AI, IoT, and cloud—we are changing the software world. We recruit globally and maintain high standards for new hires. Working here means thinking differently, working smarter, learning new skills, and raising your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds enhances our work environment and products. Regardless of your identity, your application will be given fair consideration.