Microservices Engineer

Microservices Engineer at Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is heavily utilized in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT, powering millions of clients worldwide. With 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries, the company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, offering short on‑site sprints in person while the rest of the work is done remotely. The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing, offering general selection tracks for teams focused on back‑end REST API microservices engineering in Go and Python across all seniority levels.

We are looking for outstanding engineers with clear, well‑articulated views on APIs, microservice design, engineering processes, and DevOps. Our services must scale to handle millions of Ubuntu clients and support collaboration across thousands of community members, making scalability, performance, resilience, and proactive security analysis critical.

Key areas of interest for us

• API design, documentation, and governance
• Database performance design considerations and skills
• Multi‑region service delivery for resilience and performance
• Fuzzing and other proactive security analysis techniques
• Tracing and profiling for distributed systems insights
• Next‑generation DevOps practices

Location

Microservices teams have open roles in every time zone. We value flexibility and encourage global collaboration.

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About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. 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 recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. Most colleagues at Canonical work from home since our inception in 2004.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Employment details

Seniority level : Mid‑Senior level | Employment type : Full‑time | Job function : Engineering and Information Technology | Industry : Software Development

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