Staff Software Engineer for Identity Management Go Golang
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted November 23, 2025
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Job Description
A Staff-level Software Engineer specializing in Identity Management, responsible for developing and modernizing authentication and authorization solutions across Canonical's enterprise products and websites, using Go and Python, within a remote, globally distributed team.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement identity management features and enhancements using Go and Python
- Create and maintain web service APIs supporting CLI and web clients
- Review code and set quality standards for the engineering team
- Collaborate with distributed teams on technical efforts and strategy
- Develop authentication and authorization API endpoints and user authentication flows
- Write Juju charms to manage operational concerns
- Modernize and adopt best practices in identity and access management technologies
- Own the design and delivery of identity management systems at scale
Requirements
- Experience building identity and access management products, specifically in the areas of authentication and authorization.
- Familiarity with open source software, standards, protocols, and concepts in the identity space such as OpenID, OAuth, and LDAP.
- Experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systems.
- Proficiency in writing clean web service APIs to support CLI and web frontend clients using Go (Golang) and Python.
- Ability to design and implement new features and enhancements from specifications to production and ongoing operations at scale.
- Experience reviewing code produced by other engineers and helping to set quality standards.
- Ability to create and enhance management, authentication, and authorization API endpoints.
- Experience crafting end-user authentication flows from design to implementation.
- Experience writing Juju charms operators to manage operational concerns.
- Proficiency in modernizing the identity stack of websites and products by driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies.
- A technical background with a strong software engineering foundation and technical excellence.
- A staff-level or experienced senior software engineer with specific experience in identity and access management products.
- Comfortable working on Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
- Excellent professional written and spoken English with strong presentation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events, with each trip lasting up to two weeks.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with remote work and in-person team conferences twice a year
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
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