Lead Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems

Lead Golang Software Engineer

Canonical is a leading provider of open‑source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such that 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 1,200+ colleagues in more than 80 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.

About the Role

We are hiring a Lead Golang Software Engineer at any seniority level, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, continuously develops their skills, and applies them at work. This is an exciting opportunity to work with many popular software systems, integration technologies, and open‑source solutions.

The Commercial Systems unit consists of seven engineering teams that collaborate closely with other engineering and business teams. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical’s business, and Golang plays an integral role.

Engineering Teams

• Billing team – designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that turns metrics into billable amounts and enables customers to see their current spend with Canonical at any time. The service integrates with other engineering, business, and payment systems.
• Contracts team – designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that becomes the single source of truth for all contracts with all customers, providing standardized CPQ capability and storing signed contracts in a structured format.
• Livepatch team – designs and develops a service for the delivery of Linux kernel patches to shrink the exploit window for critical and high‑severity vulnerabilities, while the system runs.
• Ubuntu Pro backend team – designs and develops backend services for the delivery of Ubuntu Pro, the most comprehensive subscription for open‑source software security.

Location

This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region (all teams except for Ubuntu Pro) or the AMER region (Ubuntu Pro).

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Nice‑to‑have Skills

What We Offer

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence – in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.

Canonical is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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