Staff Software Engineer for Identity Management Go Golang
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted January 20, 2026
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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, while collaborating with a distributed team to deliver secure and scalable identity services.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain identity management solutions for authentication and authorization across products and websites.
- Develop web service APIs using Go and Python to support CLI and web frontend clients.
- Create and enhance API endpoints for management, authentication, and authorization.
- Write end-user authentication flows from design to implementation.
- Review code and collaborate with team members to ensure quality standards.
- Modernize the identity stack by adopting best IAM technologies.
- Write Juju charms to manage operational concerns.
- Lead technical efforts and discussions within a distributed team.
- Facilitate system integrations and contribute to strategy and execution.
Requirements
- Experience building identity and access management products, with specific experience in authorization and access management across enterprise products and web services.
- 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.
- Proficiency in modernizing identity stacks and driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies.
- Technical excellence and a background in software engineering, including owning the design and delivery of systems, facilitating integrations, and working on strategy and execution.
- 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.
- Valuing secure coding practices and standards, and working within teams that prioritize security.
- Comfort with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.
- An undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about an 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, with each trip lasting up to two weeks.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and potential for more frequent adjustments for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with the possibility of working from home
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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