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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include top public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders across sectors. We are a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and few office-based roles. Teams meet a few times annually in interesting locations worldwide to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Join Canonical to build a rewarding, meaningful career working with talented people in technology.

Canonical's Store team develops and operates backend services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces, primarily built in Python and Golang. We face challenges like scaling our architecture, expanding our software offerings, and enhancing solutions for IoT and large enterprises.

If you love clean APIs, have a bias towards shipping, and value automated tests for higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in.

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Write clean web service APIs supporting CLI and web clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).
• Design and implement new features from specs to production and ongoing operations at scale.
• Review code and technical designs.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on solutions.
• Work remotely with 2-4 weeks of travel for internal and external events.

• Proficient in developing public-facing APIs and web applications with Python.
• Prefer backend code and infrastructure, with a broad tech base.
• Experienced with relational and non-relational databases, capable of designing performant data models and tuning queries.
• Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• Strong academic background in Computer Science, STEM, or similar.
• Passionate about technology and working with diverse talented teams.
• Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• Passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated, valuing soft skills.

About Canonical

Canonical is a growing, international software company working with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world's #1 cloud OS. Our mission is to realize the potential of free software. We help businesses reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance security with Ubuntu. We are a remote-first company with 700 professionals across 50 countries, setting the pace in the digital workplace.

What Canonical offers

As a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of open source, publishing Ubuntu — a key platform for AI, IoT, and cloud — we are changing the software world. We recruit globally, uphold high standards, and expect excellence. Working here is a step into the future, challenging you to think differently, learn new skills, and excel.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a workplace free from discrimination, valuing diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds. We consider all applications fairly.