Staff Software Engineer for Identity Management (Go/Golang)
Full-time
US
Oct 29, 2026
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About the Role
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the 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 75+ 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 Staff-level Software Engineer for Identity Management to work on authorization and access management across Canonical 's suite of enterprise products and web services, using Go (Golang) and Python. As a software engineer for Identity Management products of Canonical , you will modernize and expand the capabilities of the identity management solutions we use for authentication and authorization in our products, as well as our and websites. Your work on Identity Management will directly impact the users of all Canonical products. In addition, you will help write Juju charms to manage operational concerns. Technical excellence and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to own the design and delivery of the