Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure - Kafka

Canonical | Posted Feb 24, 2026

Full-time

Dubai

Negotiable

Entry (0-2 yrs)

Canonical is building a comprehensive automation suite to provide multi-cloud and on-premise data solutions for the enterprise. The data platform team develops managed solutions for a full range of data stores and data technologies, spanning from big data, through NoSQL, cache-layer capabilities, and analytics to structured SQL engines (similar to Amazon RDS approach). We are aiming to deliver fault-tolerant, mission-critical distributed systems and the world’s best automation solution for managed data platforms. We are looking for candidates from junior to senior level with interest and willingness to learn around Big Data technologies, such as distributed event-stores (Kafka) and parallel computing frameworks (Spark). Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of open-source community dynamics and the needs of large...