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We checked this opportunity from Canonical. It is listed as Africa, Europe & Americas.
The work location is Home Based - Americas; Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
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About this role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very 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. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. The mission of the LXD team is to build a next-generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data center scale cloud that 'just works' and provides a mission-critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments. We are hiring a Golang software engineer to work on the low level Go codebase sitting between our REST API and the low level C libraries used to manage containers and virtual machines. We are looking for system-level developers with experience in design and data management/modeling. LXD components span the entire software stack from low-level kernel features to the upper level management API/CLI. Our most effective engineers are fluent in all these layers, and able to anticipate the consequences of design and engineering choices elsewhere in a complex distributed system. 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. Location : This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas. What you will focus on • Design, implement and document system level Go code • Model data, design database schema and implement data storage in a dqlite (SQL) database • 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 What we are looking for in you • You have experience programming in Go and C • You are knowledgeable in networking and storage technologies • You have experience with two or more of: cloud computing, virtualisation, containers, distributed systems, open source community • You are curious, flexible, articulate an Job description: Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA
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About the employer
Canonical
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and develops open-source technology used across cloud, enterprise, IoT and AI environments.
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How this listing was checked
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- Canonical
- Source checked
- September 8, 2026
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Home Based - Americas; Home based - Europe, the Middle East and Africa
- Who can apply
- Africa, Europe & Americas · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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