Software Engineer - App Stores

Overview

Canonical Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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 help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a global, remote-first company with 700 professionals across 50 countries. Most colleagues work remotely by default.

We are seeking a Software Engineer - App Stores to join the Store team, which develops and operates a large system of backend services powering the Snap Store and Charmhub.io marketplaces. Our services are primarily Python with some Golang.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional software engineer who is passionate about open source software, Linux, and web services at scale. You will have the chance to work with a diverse and talented team and contribute to scalable production systems that support IoT and large Enterprise solutions.

What you’ll do : collaborate with a globally distributed team, design and implement new features, and ship clean APIs and services with a bias toward automated testing and reliability.

We value clean APIs, a shipping mindset, and strong collaboration.

What Canonical offers : a remote-first, globally distributed workplace with opportunities to grow, learn, and contribute to Open Source software at scale. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer and treats all applicants fairly regardless of identity or background.

What you’ll do

• 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).
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.
• Work remotely with global travel for 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

Who you are

About Canonical

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 help businesses worldwide 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.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.

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