engineering
Posted Jan 26, 2023Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems
at Canonical
On-site
Responsibilities
- Develop engineering solutions leveraging Golang
- Lead technical designs, code reviews, and implementation
- Deploy and operate services developed by the team
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback to colleagues
- Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices What we are looking for in you
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results •
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.
- We are hiring a Golang Software Engineer at any seniority level, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, continuously develops their skills, and applies them at work.
- Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and Golang plays an integral role in it.
- The Billing team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that provides a standardized and scalable capability to turn metrics into billable amounts, enable customers to see their current spend with Canonical at any time, and ensure accurate, reliable, and timely billing.
- The Contracts team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that will become the single source of truth for all contracts with all customers.
- The Livepatch team designs and develops a service for the delivery of Linux kernel patches to shrink the exploit window for critical and high severity Linux kernel vulnerabilities, by patching the Linux kernel between security maintenance windows, while the system runs.
- The engineering team behind this product develops Golang based client and backend components, while another Canonical team, the Kernel team, develops the security patches.
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Experience with software development in Golang
- Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles What we offer colleagues
- As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
Benefits
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets.
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
- This is an exciting opportunity to work with many popular software systems, integrations technologies, and exciting open-source solutions.
- The Commercial Systems unit is conceived as six engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical.
- We are looking for software engineers for these teams:
- The service further integrates with other engineering, business, payment systems.
- This team is an excellent match for any software engineer interested in growing their skills in the billing and payment processing domain.