Data Platform Engineer - Remote

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, and Web Services at scale. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing pre-IPO international software company. By integrating reliable, secure, and robust data streaming capabilities into the Snappy ecosystem, we are setting new standards in the industry for ease of development, implementation, management and security.

We are seeking talented individuals to help us enhance our global SaaS services, providing customers with the essential data services needed to build the next generation of IoT devices effortlessly. Our commitment to data governance, ownership, and confidentiality is unparalleled, ensuring our customers can innovate with confidence on top of the globally trusted Ubuntu platform.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

Collaborate remotely with a globally distributed team

Architect scalable service APIs to provide streaming data services to other teams and products using Python and Golang

Develop data governance, management and auditing systems within our telemetry platform

Work with our infrastructure team to develop both a cloud-based SaaS offering as well as a containerised on-prem solution

Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale

Work remotely with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

You have a broad technology base but favour backend code and infrastructure

You have a good understanding of cybersecurity and the challenges of the IoT environment when it comes to connectivity and data streaming

You have knowledge and experience of telemetry and connectivity systems and platforms including data streaming technologies (MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc), observability (OpenTelemetry), industrial/engineering data exchange protocols (OPC-UA, ModBus), and the application of data governance/IAM models to such systems

You have proficiency in the design and implementation of back-end web services, messaging/data pipelines, and REST APIs using Python and/or Golang

You are familiar with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform

You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events