Go Engineer, Commercial Systems at Canonical

Confirmed open

Develop and operate Go services for Canonical's billing, contracts or Livepatch systems, with responsibility for design, code review and production quality.

Canonical

Location: Home based - EMEA
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Linux, Go

Role overview

Canonical's commercial systems unit builds services used by its engineering and business teams. The posting describes Go-based billing and contracts services, as well as Livepatch delivery of Linux kernel security fixes. Engineers may join different teams and seniority levels. This role is remote in EMEA and includes two international company events yearly.

Responsibilities

Design and develop engineering solutions in Go for a commercial-systems team.
Lead technical design discussions, review code and implement production changes.
Deploy and operate the services built by the team.
Help maintain accurate, scalable billing or contract workflows, or security-patch delivery, according to team assignment.
Coach colleagues and improve engineering and organisational practices.

Qualifications

Professional Go software development and a strong focus on engineering quality.
Technical degree or convincing alternative path, together with the academic record requested in the posting.
Professional written and spoken English, including presentation skills.
Initiative, reliable delivery and willingness to mentor and receive feedback.
Performance engineering, security or experience with accounting, sales and business operations are useful additional skills.

Benefits

Home-based distributed work with twice-yearly in-person team gatherings.
A stated USD 2,000 yearly learning budget, compensation reviews and recognition rewards.
Annual and parental leave, employee assistance and travel opportunities for company events, subject to the applicable local programme.

About Canonical

Canonical publishes Ubuntu and develops open-source products for cloud, AI, connected devices and enterprise infrastructure. It describes most engineering roles as home based, with periodic in-person team gatherings.