Staff Software Engineer for Identity Management Go Golang
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description
Canonical is seeking a Staff-level Software Engineer to develop and enhance identity and access management solutions across their enterprise products and websites, focusing on authorization, authentication, and security protocols using Go and Python in a remote, globally distributed team.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain identity management solutions for authentication and authorization across products and websites.
- Develop and enhance APIs and authentication flows supporting CLI and web clients using Go and Python.
- Review code, ensure quality standards, and collaborate on technical solutions within a distributed team.
- Create and manage Juju charms to handle operational concerns.
- Modernize and adopt best practices in identity and access management technologies.
- Own the design and delivery of identity management features at scale.
- Collaborate on strategy, facilitate integrations, and contribute to product improvements.
Requirements
- Experience building identity and access management products, specifically with authorization and access management solutions.
- Familiarity with open source software, standards, protocols, and concepts in the identity space such as OpenID, OAuth, LDAP.
- Experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systems.
- Strong background in software engineering with a technical degree or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in writing clean web service APIs supporting 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.
- Ability to modernize the identity stack of websites and products by driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies.
- Excellent written and spoken English with professional presentation skills.
- Ability to work proactively with a distributed team, leading technical efforts and discussions.
- Comfort with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events, with trips up to two weeks long.
- Exceptional academic record from high school and university, or a compelling alternative narrative.
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or equivalent experience.
- Ability to work remotely, with the discipline to deliver results independently.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and performance-driven bonuses or commissions
Work from home with the opportunity to travel internationally twice a year for company events
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team conferences
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
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long-haul company events
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