Software Engineer, Identity Management

Summary

Join Canonical as an experienced software engineer to modernize and expand the capabilities of identity management solutions, working with a distributed team to design and deliver systems at scale.

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
• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform

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
• Deliver great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence

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