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Software Engineer - Industrial IoT

Canonical

London

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 70,000

Full time

17 days ago

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Job summary

Canonical seeks a Software Engineer for Industrial IoT in London. This role involves developing secure, customizable edge solutions using Go or C++, collaborating globally, and contributing to open-source IoT projects. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background and a passion for innovation in the IoT space.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software development.
  • Experience with RESTful APIs, MQTT, and wireless protocols.
  • Strong interest in IoT frameworks and real-time applications.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a distributed team on IoT solutions.
  • Develop and maintain open source IoT application packages.
  • Experiment with Ubuntu Core.

Skills

Go
C++
RESTful APIs
MQTT
Wireless communication protocols
Soft skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

CI/CD

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Software Engineer - Industrial IoT, London

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Location:

London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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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
  • Work on Matter, the connectivity standard unifying smart homes
  • Contribute to the development of EdgeX Foundry IoT platform
  • Participate in IoT standardisation working group discussions and planning (Connectivity Standards Alliance, Web of Things, etc)
  • 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, MQTT or other messaging protocols
  • You are familiar with wireless communication protocols such as WiFi, BLE, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Thread
  • You have interest and experience with a few of the following:
  • Snap, debian, or RPM packaging
  • Shell scripting
  • CI/CD (Github Actions, Gitlab CI, etc)
  • IoT frameworks and protocols
  • Real-time applications
  • 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.

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