Microservices Engineer

Canonical Ltd.; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading open source software provider is seeking a skilled engineer to design APIs and software architecture, ensuring reliability and performance. Ideal candidates have proficiency in Python and experience with Linux. You'll work in a distributed team environment, with opportunities for global collaboration and professional development. Join us in delivering robust software solutions that scale effectively in the enterprise world. This role includes annual compensation reviews and a personal learning budget, supporting your growth and development.

Benefits

Work from home with global travel twice annually

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• History of writing modern, maintainable software.
• Ability to travel twice a year for company events.

Responsibilities

• Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review.
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Build and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant applications and services.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

Experience with Linux

Experience with Docker

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Continuous integration and continuous delivery experience

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

LXD

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

• Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Understanding of build systems and toolchains
• Experience with cross-compilation
• Experience with hyperscale public clouds and / or private clouds
• Experience with designing, building, and running distributed systems
• Performance engineering and security experience
• 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

Compensation & Benefits

• Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events
• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Company Overview

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 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 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 respects 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.