Canonical is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for an experienced software engineer with Python and Golang skills to work on identity, authorization, and access management across Canonical's suite of enterprise products and web services. The role involves modernizing the identity stack of their websites and products, collaborating with a distributed team, and working from home with occasional travel.

Requirements

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You are a software engineer, with specific experience building identity and access management products
• 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 value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the same
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang)
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Create and enhance management, authentication and authorization API endpoints
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform

Benefits

• Work from home
• Learning and development allowances
• Competitive Salary
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity, paternity and sick leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Exposure to international business and technology