Golang Engineer Full-time Job

What your day will look like

Design and implement well-tested and documented software in Go

Debug and fix issues encountered by your users

Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews

Collaborate with community and colleagues on technical specifications

Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices

In some cases, deploy and operate services developed by the team

Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy

What we are looking for in you

An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path

Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations

Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule

Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community

Experience designing and writing high-quality Golang software on Linux

Experience with and passion for Linux at the system level

For more senior roles, experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs

Professional written and spoken English

Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)

Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability

Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments

Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

Experience developing for Ubuntu Linux

Experience with Juju, LXD, Microk8s, Snapd, Ubuntu Core, Ubuntu Pro

Performance engineering and security experience

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the worlds most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.