Software Developer (Backend SaaS)
Location
workfromhome, gauteng
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Development
Posted
May 29, 2026
Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Python, and web services at scale. The role will be based remotely in the Americas region and involves global travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events.
What you'll do
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Write high-quality code to create new features, fix bugs and modernise the Landscape codebase
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to code qua...