Canonical Sevilla La Nueva, Community of Madrid, Spain

Software Developer (Backend SaaS) at Canonical Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the integral enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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 founder‑led, profitable, and growing. This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Python, and web services at scale. We are building the next generation management solution for Ubuntu in the enterprise – on premise and on the public cloud – to enable large estate observability, telemetry, security, compliance and operations.

Location This role will be based remotely in the Americas region.

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 your strong commitment to code quality and automated testing

Participate in the engineering process with code and architectural reviews

Take personal ownership of problems and design and deliver solutions

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

Assist with release management during each development cycle

Collaborate with DevOps for Landscape SaaS, Canonical’s hosted Landscape

Who you are

You love technology and working with brilliant people

You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self‑motivated





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

You have proficiency developing public‑facing APIs and web applications, preferably using Python

Experience with Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django

Experience with databases and ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus)

You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform

What we offer colleagues

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

Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

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 very high standards for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.

Equal Opportunity Employer 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.

Job Details

Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development

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📌 Software Developer (Backend SaaS) (Madrid)
🏢 Canonical
📍 Madrid