Canonical
Microservices Engineer
Remote Engineering Fast Track role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedRecently added
Eligible countriesWorldwide
Seniority signalOpen level
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Worldwide
Role overview
Microservices Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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Details
- API design, documentation, and governance
- Database performance design considerations and skills
- Multi-region service delivery for resilience and performance
- Fuzzing and other proactive security analysis techniques
- Tracing and profiling for distributed systems insights
- Next-generation DevOps practices
What your day will look like
- Write high-quality, well-designed, and robust software that works at scale
- Design APIs and software architecture for collegial review
- Write tests that validate software behaviour
- Build and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant applications and services
- Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
- Display technical leadership internally and within our external communities
- Debug issues and produce high-quality solutions to resolve them
- Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
- Discuss, contribute to, and collaborate across teams at Canonical
- Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events
What we are looking for in you
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Proficiency in Python and / or Go
- History of writing modern, maintainable software
- Experience with relational and non-relational database systems
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery experience
- Experience with systems programming or scalable web services
What we are looking for in you
- Professional written and spoken English
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Additional skills that you might also bring
- Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Understanding of build systems and toolchains
- Experience with cross-compilation
- Experience with hyperscale public clouds and / or private clouds
- Experience with designing, building, and running distributed systems
- Performance engineering and security experience
What we offer you
- 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
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