Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team, leading technical efforts and discussions
• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients using Go and Python
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale
• Review code produced by other engineers to help set quality standards
• Create and enhance management, authentication, and authorization API endpoints
• Craft end-user authentication flows from design to implementation
• Write Juju charms to manage operational concerns
• Modernize the identity stack of websites and products by driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies

Requirements

• Staff-level or experienced senior software engineer with specific experience in identity and access management (IAM)
• Familiarity with open source software, standards, protocols, and concepts in the identity space (e.g., OpenID, OAuth, LDAP)
• Experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systems
• Commitment to secure coding and standards
• Proficiency with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or equivalent experience
• Professional written and spoken English
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team conferences
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review and recognition rewards
• Annual holiday, maternity, and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program and Wellness Platform
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About the Company

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.