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. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

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

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

If you have a passion for clean APIs, a bias towards shipping, and believe that 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 and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
4. Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
5. Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
6. Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who you are

1. You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.
2. You have a broad technology base but favor backend code and infrastructure.
3. You are familiar with relational and non-relational databases and can design data models that perform well and tune queries effectively.
4. You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
5. You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
6. You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
7. You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
8. You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.

About Canonical

Canonical is a growing, international software company that works 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 in the lives of individuals and organizations. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique tech company—global, remote-first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries. We aim to be the world's best, not biggest, global software company. With nearly every team remote by default, Canonical leads in the 21st-century digital workplace.

What Canonical offers:

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, a key open-source project and platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the software landscape. We recruit globally and set high standards for new hires, expecting excellence in all we do. Most colleagues have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, challenging you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and advance your career.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds enriches our work environment and improves our products. Whatever your identity, your application will be given fair consideration.