Lead Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems

Lead Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems
Canonical is a leading provider of open‑source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are hiring a Lead Golang Software Engineer at any seniority level, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, continuously develops their skills, and applies them at work. This is an exciting opportunity to work with many popular software systems, integration technologies, and open‑source solutions.
The Commercial Systems unit consists of 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, and payment systems.
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.
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.
Location : This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.
Develop engineering solutions leveraging Golang.
Lead technical designs, code reviews, and implementation.
Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices.
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.
Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.
Performance engineering and security experience.
Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles.
We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance‑driven annual bonus or commission. Annual compensation review.
Annual holiday leave.
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events.
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. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Mid‑Senior level
Full‑time
Information Technology
Software Development
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