Homeoffice Senior Engineer, Telemetry with verification

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing pre-IPO international software company.Canonical’s engineering team is at the forefront of the IoT revolution and aims to strengthen this position by developing cutting-edge telemetry and connectivity solutions. By integrating reliable, secure, and robust data streaming capabilities into the Snappy ecosystem, we are setting new standards in the industry for ease of development, implementation, management and security.We are seeking talented individuals to help us enhance our global SaaS services, providing customers with the essential data services needed to build the next generation of IoT devices effortlessly. Our commitment to data governance, ownership, and confidentiality is unparalleled, ensuring our customers can innovate with confidence on top of the globally trusted Ubuntu platform.Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.What your day will look like

• Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team.
• Architect scalable service APIs to provide streaming data services to other teams and products using Python and Golang.
• Develop data governance, management and auditing systems within our telemetry platform.
• Work with our infrastructure team to develop both a cloud-based SaaS offering as well as a containerised on-prem solution.
• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.
• Review code and technical designs produced by other engineers.
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding optimal solutions.
• Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events.

What we are looking for in you

• You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated.
• You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure.
• You have a good understanding of cybersecurity and the challenges of the IoT environment when it comes to connectivity and data streaming.
• You have knowledge and experience of telemetry and connectivity systems and platforms including data streaming technologies (MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc) observability (OpenTelemetry), industrial/engineering data exchange protocols (OPC-UA, ModBus), and the application of data governance/IAM models to such systems.
• You have proficiency in the design and implementation of back-end web services, messaging/data pipelines, and REST APIs using Python and/or Golang.
• You are familiar with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

About CanonicalCanonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu. Canonical is a unique tech company - global, remote-first, open source, with 1000+ professionals across 70+ countries. We want to be the world’s best, not biggest, global software company. With almost every team remote by default, Canonical sets the pace on the 21st-century digital workplace.What Canonical offers:

• Work from home
• Learning and development allowances
• Competitive Salary
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity, paternity and sick leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Exposure to international business and technology

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.