Golang Software Engineer - Containers / Virtualisation / API at Canonical

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact on modern cloud computing technologies. Canonical offers a fun, fast-paced team environment and a career full of learning and development.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement and document REST APIs inside a Go codebase
• Model data, design database schemas and implement data storage in a dqlite (SQL) database
• Integrate with external REST APIs and other external services (logging, monitoring, …)
• Maintain code quality through static analysis, unit and system tests
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks/year for internal and external events

Who You Are

• You are curious, flexible, articulate and accountable
• You value soft skills and are enterprising, thoughtful and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience programming in Go
• You have experience in designing or implementing REST APIs
• You have database and data modeling experience
• You have experience with two or more of: cloud computing, virtualisation, containers, distributed systems, open source community