Software Engineer - Industrial IoT

Canonical; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing international software company is seeking a software engineer passionate about open source, Linux, and IoT. In this role, you will develop and maintain IoT applications while collaborating with a distributed team. The ideal candidate has over three years of experience in software development using Go or C++, with additional skills in Docker, CI/CD tools, and IoT protocols. This position allows for remote work with occasional travel, offering a fulfilling opportunity in a fast-evolving field.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging protocols.
• Interest in containers, CI/CD tools, and IoT frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team.
• Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages.
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.

Skills

Software development using Go or C++

RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)

Linux distributions

CI / CD (Github Actions, Gitlab CI)

IoT frameworks and protocols

AI / ML inference frameworks

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or similar

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, edge computing, and IoT. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Your role will be to help us provide easy to deploy, secure, and customizable industrial edge solutions. You will work on designing and implementing applications that run on constrained IoT devices to powerful gateways. Embedded systems and Linux will be at the core of your everyday challenges.

In our team we value collaboration, peer reviews, good integration / unit testing and writing maintainable code. General knowledge and experience with Linux as a developer platform is required.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by upstream and / or other engineers at Canonical
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Experiment with Ubuntu Core and showcase industry-grade IoT solutions
• Secure deployment of IoT platforms on Linux
• Build optimized AI solutions for local inferencing on Ubuntu
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

• Proven track record of at least 3 years of professional software development using Go or C++.
• You have experience working with RESTful APIs or asynchronous messaging protocols
• You have interest and experience with a few of the following :
• Containers (docker, kubernetes)
• Linux distributions
• Snap, debian, or RPM packaging
• Shell scripting
• CI / CD (Github Actions, Gitlab CI, etc)
• IoT frameworks and protocols
• Real-time applications
• AI / ML inference frameworks
• Hardware accelerators : GPU, NPU
• You value soft skills, communication and advocacy, and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.