Staff Software Engineer for Identity Management (Go/Golang)

Home Based Americas, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team, leading technical efforts and discussions
Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Go (Golang) and Python
Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale
Review code produced by other engineers, helping set quality standards
Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
Create and enhance management, authentication and authorization API endpoints
Write Juju charms (operators) to manage operational concerns
Deliver great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence

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 Staff-level Software Engineer for Identity Management to work on authorization and access management across Canonical's suite of enterprise products and web services, using Go (Golang) and Python.
Your work on Identity Management will directly impact the users of all Canonical products.
Technical excellence and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role.
You are familiar with the open source software, standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space (e.g. OpenID, OAuth, LDAP) You have
experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systems
You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform In addition:
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
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.

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

As a software engineer for Identity Management products of Canonical, you will modernize and expand the capabilities of the identity management solutions we use for authentication and authorization in our products, as well as our canonical.com and ubuntu.com websites.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the 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 75+ 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.
In addition, you will help write Juju charms to manage operational concerns.
You will be expected to own the design and delivery of the system, facilitate integrations and work with your team on strategy and execution.
Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA and AMER regions. The role entails
Craft end-user authentication flows from design to implementation
Modernize the identity stack of our websites and products by driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies