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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. We work with the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. With more than 1,200 colleagues across 75+ countries, Canonical pioneers global distributed collaboration; teams meet two to four times yearly in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring a Junior developer with a proven track record in Python and/or Go. As part of the Observability team, you will develop a cloud‑native monitoring stack that composes best‑in‑class open‑source monitoring tools. The stack is opinionated, resilient, and scalable, providing deep insights out of the box.



It delivers a polished and seamless user experience for end‑users, while administrators will enjoy lightweight Day 1 and Day 2 operations.

Location

This role will be based remotely in the EMEA and Americas regions.

Responsibilities
- Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
- Write, test and document high‑quality code to create new features
- Debug issues and interact with a vibrant community
- Review code produced by other engineers
- Attend conferences to represent Canonical and the Charmed Observability Stack
- Work from home with general travel 2‑4 weeks for internal and external events

Qualifications
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated
- You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree
- You are a skilled Python developer, preferably with a track record in open source

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