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Canonical is seeking a Go (Golang) Software Engineer specializing in Identity Management, responsible for developing authorization and access management solutions across various products. This remote role allows you to collaborate with global teams to enhance identity management systems, delivering high-quality software that impacts users directly.
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very 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.We are hiring a Go (Golang) Software Engineer for Identity Management to work on authorization and access management across Canonical's suite of enterprise products and web services, using Go (Golang) and Python.As a software engineer for Identity Management products of Canonical, you will modernize and expand the capabilities of the identity management solutions we use for authentication and authorization in our products, as well as our canonical.com and ubuntu.com websites. Your work on Identity Management will directly impact the users of all Canonical products.Technical excellence and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to own the design and delivery of the system, facilitate integrations and work with your team on strategy and execution.Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA and AMER regions.The role entailsCollaborate proactively with a distributed teamWrite clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Go (Golang) and optionally PythonDesign and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scaleReview code produced by other engineersDiscuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutionsCreate and enhance management, authentication and authorization API endpointsCraft end-user authentication flows from design to implementationModernize the identity stack of our websites and products by driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies Deliver great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellenceWork from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external eventsWhat we are looking for in youYou are a software engineer, with specific experience building identity and access management products You are familiar with the open source software, standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space (e.g. OpenID, OAuth, LDAP)You have experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systemsYou value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the sameYou are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platformIn addition:Exceptional academic track record from both high school and universityUndergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen pathProfessional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skillsExcellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountabilityAbility to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks longWhat we offer colleaguesWe consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.
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