Senior Staff Engineer Full-time Job

What You’ll Do

Proactively collaborate within and contribute to design, architecture, and feature-selection for solutions across distributed teams

Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests

Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes

Review code produced by other engineers

Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 times a year for internal and external events

Who You Are

You love technology, working with brilliant people, and solving interesting problems

You are a strategic thinker

You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated

You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

You have proficiency delivering robust code to production, preferably written in Python.

You have experience and enjoy maintaining and improving large and mature web applications.

You have experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modelling.

You have an interest in, or experience with, integration, infrastructure and operations.

You believe that robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery.

You have familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.

You have a solid understanding of the structure of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages.

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the worlds most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.