Software Developer (Backend SaaS)

About the role

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. 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.

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Python, and web services at scale. We are building the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise - on premise and on the public cloud - to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance and operations. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Landscape is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage fleets of Ubuntu systems, including package and repository management, health and security monitoring, hardware inventory, and automation. As Landscape software engineer you will be responsible for contributing on a distributed development team participating in all facets of the development process.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.

What you’ll do

- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team

- Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernize the Landscape codebase

- Demonstrate your strong commitment to code quality and automated testing

- Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews

- Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions

- Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

- Assist with release management during each development cycle

- Collaborate with devops for Landscape SaaS, Canonical’s hosted Landscape

Who you are

- You love technology and working with brilliant people

- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

- You have proficiency developing public-facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python.

- Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django.

- Experience with databases, and ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus)

- You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.