Senior Open Source Engineer – Architect & Lead (Remote)

Canonical Ltd.; United States; Remote; MXN 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Maternity/Paternity leave

Wellness platform

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Senior+ Engineer to drive architecture and evolution of high-impact open source software. You will code in Go, Rust, Python, C/C++, or TS/React, mentor teammates, and partner with globally distributed engineering leaders to ship outstanding products.

Location: remote opportunities across time zones, with two in-person team sprints annually. Canonical offers rigorous academics, strong English communication, travel as needed, and benefits including a learning budget, annual

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or compelling narrative about alternative path.
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
• Technical leadership and team motivation, direction and pace.
• Deep experience with Go, Rust, Python or C.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Ability to travel twice a year for company events.

Responsibilities

• Leading design and architecture of an impactful open source project.
• Coding in Go, Rust, Python, C/C++ or TS/React.
• Collaborating proactively with a globally distributed team.
• Mentoring colleagues in their career progression.
• Displaying technical leadership in Canonical and our communities.
• Debugging issues and producing high-quality code to fix them.
• Contributing to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind.
• Working from home with global travel twice annually for company events.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

C

Technical leadership

English communication

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

LXD

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Senior+ Engineer to drive architecture and evolution of high-impact open source software. You will code in Go, Rust, Python, C/C++, or TS/React, mentor teammates, and partner with globally distributed engineering leaders to ship outstanding products.

Location: remote opportunities across time zones, with two in-person team sprints annually. Canonical offers rigorous academics, strong English communication, travel as needed, and benefits including a learning budget, annual