Remote Golang System Software Engineer — Cloud & Edge

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel opportunities to meet teammates

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Golang software engineer to work on the low-level Go code that sits between our REST API and the underlying C libraries used to manage containers and virtual machines. The role is remote and available across the Americas and EMEA, with travel 2–4 weeks per year for internal and external events.

You will design system-level Go code, model data, and implement data storage using a dqlite database, while maintaining high code quality through static analysis and comprehensive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or equivalent.
• Experience programming in Go and C.
• Knowledge of networking and storage technologies.
• Experience with cloud computing, virtualization, containers, distributed systems or open source.
• Curious, flexible, articulate and accountable.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and document system level Go code
• Model data, design database schema and implement data storage in a dqlite (SQL) database
• Maintain code quality through static analysis, unit and system tests
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

Skills

Go

C

Networking

Storage

Cloud computing

Virtualisation

Containers

Distributed systems

Open source

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM or equivalent

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Golang software engineer to work on the low-level Go code that sits between our REST API and the underlying C libraries used to manage containers and virtual machines. The role is remote and available across the Americas and EMEA, with travel 2–4 weeks per year for internal and external events.

You will design system-level Go code, model data, and implement data storage using a dqlite database, while maintaining high code quality through static analysis and comprehensive