Lead Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems
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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 six 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: 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. 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. 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
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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. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. 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 What we are looking for in you * 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 skills * Performance engineering and security experience * Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles What we offer colleagues * 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 About Canonical 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
