Golang System Software Engineer - Containers / Virtualisation

Golang System Software Engineer – Containers / Virtualisation

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ 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 mission of the LXD team is to build a next‑generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph and SDN technologies to create a data‑center scale cloud that “just works” and provides a mission‑critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments. We are hiring a Golang software engineer to work on the low‑level Go codebase sitting between our REST API and the low‑level C libraries used to manage containers and virtual machines. We are looking for system‑level developers with experience in design and data management/modeling.

Location: This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and document system level Go code
• Model data, design database schema and implement data storage in a dqlite (SQL) database
• Maintain code quality through static analysis, unit and system tests
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks/year for internal and external events

Qualifications

• Experience programming in Go and C
• Knowledgeable in networking and storage technologies
• Experience with two or more of: cloud computing, virtualisation, containers, distributed systems, open source community
• Curious, flexible, articulate and accountable
• Values soft skills and is enterprising, thoughtful and self‑motivated
• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Benefits

• 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 Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events

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.