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Overview:

We’re searching for a passionate and skilled Software Engineer with expertise in C++ and embedded systems to play a pivotal role in the evolution of mission-critical products. This is an opportunity to help build and maintain software solutions that make a real-world impact, while working alongside an experienced and collaborative technical leadership team.

If you thrive in a Linux-based environment, embrace cyber security best practices, and enjoy solving complex technical challenges—this role is for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate closely with leadership and development teams on the design, implementation, and support of high-performance embedded software
• Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of core applications developed primarily in C++
• Take ownership of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes across software modules
• Navigate and contribute to Linux-based system architecture and device-level interactions
• Assist with integration and refinement of third-party software components as needed
• Participate in code reviews, system testing, and release evaluations
• Work within an Agile environment using tools such as JIRA to track epics, stories, tasks, and delivery timelines
• Engage with the broader team in weekly technical reviews, roadmap discussions, and feature evaluations
• Maintain strong written and verbal communication with both internal and external development contributors
• Option for hybrid on-site/remote work with active and consistent collaboration

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing C++ applications within Windows and Linux environments
• Deep proficiency with Linux (e.g., CentOS), including system architecture, boot processes, and device management
• Experience with shell scripting (bash, csh) and Linux system administration
• A solid understanding of secure coding practices and the ability to align development efforts with cybersecurity frameworks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset
• Ability to work both independently and as a contributing member of a high-performing team
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, roadmap-driven environment
• Bonus: Experience with audio/video technologies or embedded media systems

Education & Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Technology, or equivalent experience
• Associate degree may be acceptable with demonstrable technical expertise and experience

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Health and dental benefits
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions
• Profit sharing and year-end performance bonuses
• Generous vacation and sick leave policies

Why Join Us?

This is more than a job—it’s a chance to develop technology that matters and protects lives. You’ll be joining a mission-driven, collaborative team focused on innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement. Your code will help power systems that contribute to safety, resilience, and modern communications across various platforms.

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Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for 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 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.

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, integrations technologies, and exciting open-source solutions.

The Commercial Systems unit is conceived as seven engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and Golang plays an integral role in it. We are looking for software engineers for these teams:

The Billing team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that provides a standardized and scalable capability to turn metrics into billable amounts, enable customers to see their current spend with Canonical at any time, and ensure accurate, reliable, and timely billing. The service further integrates with other engineering, business, payment systems. This team is an excellent match for any software engineer interested in growing their skills in the billing and payment processing domain.

The Contracts team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that will become the single source of truth for all contracts with all customers. The service provides a standardized CPQ capability and stores signed contracts in a structured format. The service further integrates with other engineering and business systems including a CRM system and an accounting system. This team is an excellent match for any software engineer interested in understanding sales and revenue processes and growing their skills beyond software engineering.

The Livepatch team designs and develops a service for the delivery of Linux kernel patches to shrink the exploit window for critical and high severity Linux kernel vulnerabilities, by patching the Linux kernel between security maintenance windows, while the system runs. The engineering team behind this product develops Golang based client and backend components, while another Canonical team, the Kernel team, develops the security patches. This team is a great opportunity for a software engineer interested in security and with a strong focus on engineering quality and reliability.

The Ubuntu Pro backend team designs and develops backend services for the delivery of Ubuntu Pro, the most comprehensive subscription for open-source software security. The engineering team behind this product develops Golang based backend components, while the Security team at Canonical develop security patches. This team is a great opportunity for a software engineer with a strong focus on engineering quality, software performance, and reliability of operations.

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

The role entails

• Develop engineering solutions leveraging Golang
• Lead technical designs, code reviews, and implementation
• Deploy and operate services developed by the team
• Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback to colleagues
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
  
  

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Experience with software development in Golang
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• Performance engineering and security experience
• Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for 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 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.

We are hiring a Lead Python Software Engineer 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, integrations technologies, and exciting open source solutions.

The Commercial Systems unit is conceived as seven engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and Python plays an integral role in it. We are looking for Python Software Engineers for the Integrations team.

The Integrations team is responsible for the automation of SAAS user management and onboarding of new data sources to the data mesh. The team designs, develops, and operates a Python based solution to automate SAAS seat management and track spend across the application portfolio. Furthermore the team integrates internal and external data sources into the data mesh using open-source ETL solutions, enabling more data driven decisions in the organization.

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

The role entails

• Develop engineering solutions leveraging Python
• Collaborate with colleagues on technical designs and code reviews
• Deploy and operate services developed by the team
• Depending on your seniority, coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
  
  

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Experience with software development in Python
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
  
  

• Performance engineering and security experience
• Experience with Airbyte, Ranger, Temporal, or Trino
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Join to apply for the Distributed Systems Software Engineer, Python / Go role at Canonical

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We are seeking a software engineer with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems. At Canonical you can build a career and drive the success of those leveraging Canonical's Ubuntu and Juju to build multi-cloud deployable cloud applications.

We see quality engineering as a first class engineering practice and are looking for people who can bring deep engineering insights and a data driven approach to test automation, reporting and data analytics.

The Distributed Systems testing team at Canonical is responsible for ensuring the high quality of Canonical's Cloud solutions based on Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, Kubernetes when deployed under highly diverse conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds like AWS, GCE, Azure.

As a software engineer you will have the opportunity to develop CI pipelines which power Canonical's cloud integration testing and reporting. Upcoming initiatives you will have the opportunity to contribute to include expanding deployment capabilities to new clouds and developing AI/ML pipelines for automatic analysis of test results. A successful candidate is interested in tackling these problems, as well as imagining and leading new initiatives within the team and across Canonical.

Location: this is a Globally remote role

What your day will look like

• Create automated testing approaches and infrastructure for validating reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications
• Enable engineering teams across Canonical to develop software with confidence by making distributed system testing tooling available across the company
• Enhance continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical's cloud native products such as Kubeflow
• Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems
• Monitor and report on automated testing efforts
• Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team
  
  

• Solid background in modern test processes and strategies
• Experience with Python or Go development
• Strong object oriented development skills
• Ability to develop and ship production grade modern web applications
• Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub CI
• Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals
• Solid understanding of Linux system architecture
• A capacity for complex abstract thinking
• Capability for 2-4 weeks of international travel travel per year
  
  

• Collecting and analyzing large multidimensional datasets
• Operating data platforms: key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses
• Work with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS
• Developing AI/ML pipelines
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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We are seeking a software engineer with a passion for building and validating resilient distributed systems. At Canonical you can build a career and drive the success of those leveraging Canonical's Ubuntu and Juju to build multi-cloud deployable cloud applications.

We see quality engineering as a first class engineering practice and are looking for people who can bring deep engineering insights and a data driven approach to test automation, reporting and data analytics.

The Distributed Systems testing team at Canonical is responsible for ensuring the high quality of Canonical's Cloud solutions based on Juju, Terraform, OpenStack, Kubernetes when deployed under highly diverse conditions, from bare metal in customer data centers to public clouds like AWS, GCE, Azure.

As a software engineer you will have the opportunity to develop CI pipelines which power Canonical's cloud integration testing and reporting. Upcoming initiatives you will have the opportunity to contribute to include expanding deployment capabilities to new clouds and developing AI/ML pipelines for automatic analysis of test results. A successful candidate is interested in tackling these problems, as well as imagining and leading new initiatives within the team and across Canonical.

Location: this is a Globally remote role

What your day will look like

• Create automated testing approaches and infrastructure for validating reliability, performance, and resilience of cloud orchestration tools and applications
• Enable engineering teams across Canonical to develop software with confidence by making distributed system testing tooling available across the company
• Enhance continuous integration pipelines for deploying and testing Canonical's cloud native products such as Kubeflow
• Deploy, manage, and debug highly distributed systems
• Monitor and report on automated testing efforts
• Collaborate daily with a globally distributed team
  
  

• Solid background in modern test processes and strategies
• Experience with Python or Go development
• Strong object oriented development skills
• Ability to develop and ship production grade modern web applications
• Working knowledge of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub CI
• Knowledge of networking technologies and fundamentals
• Solid understanding of Linux system architecture
• A capacity for complex abstract thinking
• Capability for 2-4 weeks of international travel travel per year
  
  

• Collecting and analyzing large multidimensional datasets
• Operating data platforms: key-value stores, relational or document databases, event buses
• Work with cloud technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS
• Developing AI/ML pipelines
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Master-Works is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Software Deployment Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for deploying, configuring, and monitoring software applications in various environments, ensuring that they run smoothly and meet operational requirements. You will collaborate closely with development, QA, and IT teams to facilitate seamless software delivery and deployment processes.

• Responsibilities:
• Applications Production environment management with knowledge on Windows OS and Linux OS Servers management
• Follow policies and procedures on Change Management and IT Governance standards
• Cybersecurity Reports review and validation and closing vulnerabilities and provide closure report with evidence
• Development knowledge: experienced on development outcomes including compiled files and configurations files of web applications and web servers management
• Troubleshooting live applications in Collaboration with Infrastructure teams (Systems, Networks, and IT Security) and provide RCA report
• Level 3 Support: Provide advanced technical support and troubleshooting for complex application issues
• Incident Management: Investigate, diagnose, and resolve application incidents, including software errors, performance issues, and system outages
• Problem Management: Analyze recurring incidents, identify root causes, and implement preventative measures
• Application Monitoring: Monitor application performance, identify potential issues proactively, and take corrective actions
• User Support: Assist users with application-related questions, provide guidance on best practices, and conduct training sessions as needed
• Application Upgrades & Deployments: Participate in the planning, testing, and deployment of application upgrades and patches
• Documentation: Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation on application configurations, troubleshooting procedures, and knowledge base articles
• Vendor Management: Coordinate with software vendors for technical support, bug fixes, and resolution of critical issues
• Project Involvement: Contribute to IT projects related to application implementation, integration, and enhancement
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with the latest technologies and best practices in application support
• DevSecOps: regular activities on development lifecycle and manage pipelines, configurations, and maintenance
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in software deployment or a related role
• Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, PowerShell) for automation
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
• Strong understanding of various deployment methodologies (e.g., blue-green, canary releases)
• Knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a team and manage multiple priorities

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Other
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting

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