Remote Backend SaaS Engineer – Python & Linux

Higlobe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global travel opportunities

Learning budget USD 2,000/year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Holiday leave

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a software engineer to contribute to Landscape, a leading Ubuntu management tool for on‑premise and cloud deployments. You’ll work on distributed teams to deliver features, fix issues, and improve testing and deployment.

You should be comfortable with Python, Flask/Django, and Ubuntu in a global, remote‑first setting with periodic in‑person events. Canonical offers strong growth and travel opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Public APIs

Python

Django/Flask

Databases/ORMs

Ubuntu

Education

Bachelor's in CS/STEM

Tools

Flask

Django

PostgreSQL

Job description

Canonical is seeking a software engineer to contribute to Landscape, a leading Ubuntu management tool for on‑premise and cloud deployments. You’ll work on distributed teams to deliver features, fix issues, and improve testing and deployment.

You should be comfortable with Python, Flask/Django, and Ubuntu in a global, remote‑first setting with periodic in‑person events. Canonical offers strong growth and travel opportunities.