Staff Software Engineer for Identity Management (Go/Golang)

The role

You will modernize and expand identity management solutions for authentication and authorization across Canonical's products and websites. You will also write Juju charms to manage operational concerns using Go and Python.

What you will do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write clean web service APIs using Go and Python
• Design and implement new features from spec to production
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Create and enhance management, authentication and authorization API endpoints
• Craft end-user authentication flows from design to implementation
• Write Juju charms to manage operational concerns
• Modernize the identity stack of websites and products
• Maintain a culture of quality and engineering excellence

Required qualifications

• Staff-level or experienced senior software engineer
• Specific experience building identity and access management products
• Familiarity with open source software, standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space (e.g. OpenID, OAuth, LDAP)
• Experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systems
• Value secure coding and standards
• Comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

Nice to have

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team conferences in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About the company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, including the Ubuntu platform. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries.