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Responsibilities include building and maintaining backend services for distributed applications, requiring functional programming with Scala and TypeScript, alongside client interactions.

As a Software Engineer at Canonical, you will design, build, and ship software, improve packaging and distribution processes, and mentor colleagues while contributing to open source projects.

The Junior Ubuntu Software Engineer will design, build, and ship software, focusing on quality and resilience, while engaging with the open source community.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

Design, build, test, and operate IAM and platform services across the stack. Implement APIs, models, workflows, and orchestration surfaces. Research and prototype AI agent identity solutions, collaborate with product and UX, participate in design, coding, testing, rollout, and production support, and mentor other engineers.

Design, build, test, and operate IAM production services across the Ping platform. Implement APIs, models, workflows, orchestration, and UI experiences. Research and prototype AI/agent identity solutions, collaborate with product and UX, participate in full development lifecycle, and support production operations and knowledge sharing.

Collaborate with Java developers to design test strategies and automation frameworks. Develop and run functional and non-functional tests (performance, load, stress, resilience, scalability), integrate tests into CI/CD, monitor test health, investigate failures, and improve system quality for a distributed real-time Java platform.

Lead architecture for large-scale, high-availability distributed systems using Domain Driven Design. Provide project-embedded consultation, prioritize platform capabilities, drive CI/CD and cloud practices, and communicate technical strategy to stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and observable systems.

As a Software Engineer, you will design and develop applications, write clean code, engage in code reviews, optimize systems, and explore new technologies in a remote team.

We are seeking 2025 and 2026 Graduate Software Engineers to join Canonical's teams focused on open source software. Responsibilities include product roadmapping, coding in various languages, engaging with the community, and ensuring high-quality performance. Candidates should have an exceptional academic track record and experience with Linux.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build scalable distributed systems, improve developer experience, mentor peers, and lead incident responses.

The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate in small teams to develop and maintain backend and frontend components, focusing on high-availability systems, writing tests, and continuous delivery on Google Cloud Platform.

The Senior Software Engineer leads project subsystems, mentors junior engineers, and designs scalable SaaS solutions while optimizing performance and ensuring code quality.

The role involves developing, testing, and deploying Python microservices, solving complex technical problems, and contributing to architectural decisions. Engineers will work with a product team and ensure code quality through reviews and testing, while continuously learning and improving practices.

Develop and maintain NedGraphics cloud collaboration platform and integrations. Build serverless AWS backends, secure REST APIs and event-driven workflows, optimize performance, enforce security best practices, implement automated tests, and produce technical documentation for third-party and internal integrations.

Develop and maintain NedGraphics cloud products and OptiNedLink, build serverless AWS backends, implement secure REST APIs and event-driven workflows, create integrations with third-party systems, optimize performance, enforce security best practices, and produce developer-facing documentation and automated tests.

Develop and maintain NedGraphics cloud platform (OptiNedLink). Build serverless AWS backends, secure/versioned REST APIs and event-driven workflows, integrate third-party/ERP/PLM systems, implement automated testing, optimize performance, enforce security best practices, and produce technical documentation.

The Software Test Engineer verifies software solutions within an agile team, focusing on quality assurance through testing, documentation, and collaboration with customers and developers. Responsibilities include executing test cases, identifying bugs, and participating in various acceptance testing phases.

Lead and own platform architecture across Infrahub ecosystem, implement high-impact architectural improvements, reduce technical debt, champion AI-first engineering, provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and leadership to ensure scalable, extensible systems.

Lead architecture and technical direction across the full stack, solve ambiguous cross-cutting problems, deploy LLM-powered features into production, improve reliability and scale, mentor engineers, and make strategic build/buy and platform decisions that shape long-term product delivery.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer ensures the reliability and performance of the Mural editor, collaborates on technical projects, and designs APIs for real-time collaboration. Responsibilities include product engineering, mentoring, and improving team processes while focusing on performance and developer experience.

Lead decomposition of a PHP monolith into Go microservices, design and operate scalable distributed systems (Kafka, Temporal, OpenSearch, Memgraph), integrate network telemetry and third-party APIs, maintain Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure, enforce SLAs/SLOs and CI/CD quality, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and drive platform architecture and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer II will design and implement generative AI services, drive architectural standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance data solutions.

Lead the Market Making Engineering team in developing real-time quoting systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and enhance software and processes.