Open Source Solutions Engineer — Python/Golang (Remote)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% work-from-home

Learning and development

Competitive salary

Recognition rewards

Annual leave

Priority Pass for travel

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a regional software engineering lead to shape and deliver open source IT and cloud initiatives. You will guide distributed teams, drive high-quality Python and Golang code, and influence architecture across Linux, networking, and virtualization.

Join a remote-first company with 100% work-from-home, learning and development, competitive salary, and opportunities to travel up to 10% for internal and external events.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and Golang development experience.
• Experience shaping and leading software teams, ideally regionally.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality, scalable infrastructure software.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a regional software engineering team.
• Design and deliver open source software operations code in Python and Golang.
• Shape monitoring and alerting infrastructure for cloud workloads.
• Collaborate with infra and ops teams across private OpenStack clouds and Kubernetes clusters.
• Promote sound engineering design, testing, and agile practices.
• Foster a collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values.
• Travel up to 10% for internal and external events.

Skills

Python development

Golang

Cloud computing concepts

Linux

Networking

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Ubuntu/Linux

Job description

Canonical is seeking a regional software engineering lead to shape and deliver open source IT and cloud initiatives. You will guide distributed teams, drive high-quality Python and Golang code, and influence architecture across Linux, networking, and virtualization.

Join a remote-first company with 100% work-from-home, learning and development, competitive salary, and opportunities to travel up to 10% for internal and external events.