Microservices Engineer Full-time Job

Key areas of interest for us are:

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: we have microservices teams with open roles in every time zone.

What your day will look like

Write high-quality, well-designed, and robust software that works at scale

Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review

Write tests that validate software behaviour

Build and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant applications and services

Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team

Display technical leadership internally and within our external communities

Debug issues and produce high-quality solutions to resolve them

Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind

Discuss, contribute to, and collaborate across teams at Canonical

Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events

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

Proficiency in Python and / or Go

History of writing modern, maintainable software

Experience with relational and non-relational database systems

Continuous integration and continuous delivery experience

Experience with systems programming or scalable web services

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 with container tech such as LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes

Understanding of build systems and toolchains

Experience with cross-compilation

Experience with hyperscale public clouds and / or private clouds

Experience with designing, building, and running distributed systems

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.