Remote Python Engineer – Open Source Innovator

Canonical; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Learning budget USD 2,000

Twice-yearly team sprints in person

Travel opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Canonical is hiring Python Developers to work across teams and contribute to open-source software. This general track role supports projects running on servers, Kubernetes, desktops, and web services for Ubuntu clients, with opportunities to engage with the wider open-source community.

Remote roles in every time zone; you will write maintainable Python, collaborate with a distributed team, and participate in company events twice a year.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience with well-documented code.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Professional written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, well-designed and well-tested Python software.
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Display technical leadership at Canonical and in our communities.
• Debug issues and produce high-quality code to fix them.
• Contribute to technical documentation with the aim to make it the best of its kind.
• Work from home with global travel twice a year for company events.

Skills

Python

Open source

Remote collaboration

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Canonical is hiring Python Developers to work across teams and contribute to open-source software. This general track role supports projects running on servers, Kubernetes, desktops, and web services for Ubuntu clients, with opportunities to engage with the wider open-source community.

Remote roles in every time zone; you will write maintainable Python, collaborate with a distributed team, and participate in company events twice a year.