Senior Software Engineer - Ubuntu Systems Management

Canonical; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a passionate Senior Software Engineer for Ubuntu Systems Management in London. This role involves developing and enhancing the Landscape management tool, integral for Ubuntu systems management. Candidates should have experience in Python and web technologies, and appreciate collaborating with a global team while enjoying remote work flexibility.

Qualifications

• Experience with developing public-facing APIs and web applications is essential.
• Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development platform.
• Experience with databases and ORMs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a distributed team on software development.
• Write high-quality code to create new features and fix bugs.
• Participate in code reviews and enhance the Landscape codebase.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

API Development

Web Applications

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Flask

Django

PostgreSQL

Ubuntu

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Senior Software Engineer - Ubuntu Systems Management, London

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Canonical

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London, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job Description:

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Python, and web services at scale. We are building the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise - on premise and on the public cloud - to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance and operations. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Landscape is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, including package and repository management, health and security monitoring, hardware inventory, and automation. As Landscape software engineer you will be responsible for contributing on a distributed development team participating in all facets of the development process.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernize the Landscape codebase
• Demonstrate your strong commitment to code quality and automated testing
• Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews
• Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions
• Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
• Assist with release management during each development cycle
• Collaborate with devops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical’s hosted Landscape

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python.
• Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django.
• Experience with databases, and ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus)
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.