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About the role
Canonical is hiring a Golang Software Engineer at any seniority level, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, and continuously develops their skills.
The Commercial Systems unit comprises six engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Its services are at the heart of Canonical business, and Golang plays an integral role. Openings are available on the Billing, Contracts, and Livepatch teams.
This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
What you'll do
- 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.
What they're looking for
- 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.
Nice to have
- Performance engineering and security experience.
- Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles.
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Benefits
The hot takeJeff's read on Canonical
Canonical is a bit tricky for me to review for a few reasons:
Their Glassdoor reviews have dropped down to 3.1 (March 25, 2026), right at my threshold. I'd want to see this start trending in the correct direction in order to consider them for inclusion again.
I like they they have yearly sprints in cool locations like Cape Town, Madrid, and London.
I like that hire-from-anywhere/work-from-anywhere roles are clearly labeled on the job listings as "worldwide."
I'd like to read more about how they feel about their employees traveling as a digital nomad, or being location-independent in general.
I'd like to see more details about the perks they do or don't offer employees, though I suspect they vary by hiring region.
Please get back to me, because I would like to include you again, but need a few more details to do so.