[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Canonical logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/b4d068a9-221-1.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/canonical-ltd.md)[Canonical](https://jobicy.com/company/canonical-ltd.md) # Golang Software Engineer, Commercial Systems Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/canonical-ltd.md)ShareRemote from[EMEA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/emea.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished29 Oct 2026Apply before28 Nov 2026Listing views58Application actions5Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Canonical is seeking a Golang Software Engineer to build, operate, and improve commercial systems supporting billing, contracts, or Livepatch services. The role combines backend Go development with technical design leadership, code review, service operations, and mentoring. Engineers work remotely across EMEA and collaborate with distributed engineering and business teams. Candidates need strong Golang experience, excellent English communication, a record of high achievement, and availability for two international company events per year. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 4/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 4/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a technically demanding backend engineering role involving production ownership, system design, reliability, and integrations with business-critical systems. The expectations to lead reviews, mentor colleagues, and maintain high engineering standards increase the senior-level complexity. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$110,000US market range (per year)$85k–$140k0$154k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer salary range is disclosed. The annual figures are AI estimates in USD for a remote EMEA Golang software engineering role; the yearly cadence is inferred from the full-time professional role and standard market convention. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would quantify the resulting improvement through uptime, error-rate, latency, or incident reduction. How would you design a service that converts usage metrics into accurate billable amounts? I would define an immutable usage-event model, validation rules, pricing versions, idempotent ingestion, and an auditable calculation pipeline. I would also include reconciliation processes, access controls, monitoring, and clear integration contracts with payment, CRM, and accounting systems. What is your approach to leading effective code reviews? I focus reviews on correctness, maintainability, security, operational behavior, and alignment with the system design rather than personal style. I provide specific, respectful feedback, explain trade-offs, and use recurring patterns from reviews to improve team standards and documentation. How do you operate a Go service safely after deployment? I use automated tests, CI checks, staged rollouts, health checks, structured logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and documented rollback procedures. I also review production signals after release and conduct blameless incident reviews to prevent recurrence. How would you mentor an engineer who is strong in coding but less experienced with system design? I would pair on a bounded design problem, help them identify requirements and trade-offs, and progressively give them ownership of design documents and implementation decisions. Regular feedback, design-review participation, and post-launch reflection would help build confidence and judgment. Opportunity details ## About this role. Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Golang Software Engineer at any seniority level, who strives for the highest engineering quality, seeks improvements, continuously develops their skills, and applies them at work. This is an exciting opportunity to work with many popular software systems, integrations technologies, and exciting open-source solutions. The Commercial Systems unit is conceived as six engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and Golang plays an integral role in it. We are looking for software engineers for these teams: The Billing team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that provides a standardized and scalable capability to turn metrics into billable amounts, enable customers to see their current spend with Canonical at any time, and ensure accurate, reliable, and timely billing. The service further integrates with other engineering, business, payment systems. This team is an excellent match for any software engineer interested in growing their skills in the billing and payment processing domain. The Contracts team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that will become the single source of truth for all contracts with all customers. The service provides a standardized CPQ capability and stores signed contracts in a structured format. The service further integrates with other engineering and business systems including a CRM system and an accounting system. This team is an excellent match for any software engineer interested in understanding sales and revenue processes and growing their skills beyond software engineering. The Livepatch team designs and develops a service for the delivery of Linux kernel patches to shrink the exploit window for critical and high severity Linux kernel vulnerabilities, by patching the Linux kernel between security maintenance windows, while the system runs. The engineering team behind this product develops Golang based client and backend components, while another Canonical team, the Kernel team, develops the security patches. This team is a great opportunity for a software engineer interested in security and with a strong focus on engineering quality and reliability. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. ### The role entails * Develop engineering solutions leveraging Golang * Lead technical designs, code reviews, and implementation * Deploy and operate services developed by the team * Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback to colleagues * Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices ### What we are looking for in you * Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university * Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path * Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results * Experience with software development in Golang * Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills * Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments * Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long ### Nice-to-have skills * Performance engineering and security experience * Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles ### What we offer colleagues We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. * Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person * Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year * Annual compensation review * Recognition rewards * Annual holiday leave * Maternity and paternity leave * Employee Assistance Program * Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues * Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events ### About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence – in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer 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.](https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity) #LI-remote Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/157772-golang-software-engineer-commercial-systems.md) > Annual salary information is not provided for this position. 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