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. This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.

Our services are built primarily in Python, with a bit of Golang.

We have some exciting challenges ahead including continuing to scale our production architecture, significantly expanding the range of software we can deliver through the system powering our marketplaces, and enhancing our offering for the booming world of IoT and for large Enterprise solutions.

If you have a passion for clean APIs, have a bias towards shipping, and believe that automated tests are the key to higher velocity and reliability, you'll fit right in.

Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.

Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).

Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.

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





You have demonstrated professional proficiency in developing public-facing APIs and web applications using Python.

You know your way around relational and non-relational databases and can effectively design data models that perform well, and tune queries to access them.

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

You have demonstrated strong academic performance in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree.

You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.

Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu -- the world’s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services are helping businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique tech company - global, remote-first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries - we want to be the world’s best, not biggest, global software company. With almost every team remote by default, Canonical sets the pace on the 21st-century digital workplace.

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 key open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. LI-remote

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📌 Software Engineer (Flexible/Remote) (Canada)
🏢 Canonical
📍 Canada