C, Golang Software Engineer working on dqlite, a Raft extension for SQLite

Canonical

📍 Home based - EMEA 💼 Fully Remote 📅 Posted: 2026-05-07 🌟 3/5 Relevance 📊 Source: Greenhouse Canonical

Job Description

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 1000+ colleagues in 70+ 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 software developer to focus on dqlite, our distributed SQLite database which uses our own Raft library for establishing consensus and replication. Dqlite is available as a pure C library or through a Go package that we also maintain, and we intend to provide bindings for Python and other languages.

You will design and implement enhancements to the libraft, dqlite and go-dqlite components which we consume in MicroK8s, LXD and other projects. Work includes development in those pieces of software as well as responding to issues and user inquiries.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact on modern computing technologies. Canonical offers a fast-paced team environment and a career full of learning and development opportunities.

Location: This is a remote position available in EMEA

What you will focus on

• Design and implement features across dqlite

• Debug and fix issues encountered by your users

• Improve Jepsen tests, traditional HA database automated testing and stress tests

• Participate in our engineering process through code and architectural review

• Engage with the open source community and commercial partners

What we are looking for in you

• Experience with distributed systems (preferably with Raf...

Skills & Technologies

Cloud Data Design EMEA Engineering Go HR Lead Platform Python
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