Canva

3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 6 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Set the technical direction for platforms that power how engineers build at Canva, spanning Developer Workflows, Build & Deploy, and Observability. Lead end-to-end, cross-team platform initiatives—scoping and solving complex problems, driving adoption from design docs, and defining engineering standards. Build scalable self-service platforms and CLIs, raise observability and reliability, and support CI/CD, release automation, monorepo/build tooling, and Infrastructure as Code on AWS and Kubernetes.

Location: Sydney

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Identify, scope, and solve complex platform problems across multiple teams, including areas not yet fully defined.
•Drive initiatives from design docs through adoption by defining tools, standards, and practices that become engineering norms.
•Architect scalable infrastructure that eliminates friction for engineers and deliver self-service platforms and CLIs.
•Set the observability standard across monitoring, alerting, and health visibility, and support critical platform services through on-call rotation.
•Lead and evolve source control, monorepo and Bazel tooling, code review infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and safe, reliable deployments while staying hands-on in code.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityParental Leave

Key Requirements

•Staff-level background in Platform Engineering with strong programming experience in Python and Go (Java or TypeScript is a plus).
•Proven experience leading complex, cross-team platform initiatives end-to-end and setting the direction others build on.
•Strong experience with AWS and deep Kubernetes knowledge (autoscaling, pod lifecycle, scheduling, configuration).
•Experience shaping CI/CD pipelines at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildkite or similar) and monorepo build tools (Bazel highly valued).
•Practical observability experience and Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation treated as production code).

Experience:Platform engineeringDeveloper workflowsDeveloper toolingInfrastructureObservability

Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringCollaborationStakeholder managementProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaTypeScriptAWSKubernetesJenkinsGitLab CIBuildkiteBazelGradleCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeTerraformPulumiCloudFormationObservabilityCLIsMonorepoAI/LLM

Company Brief

Canva

Canva is an online visual communications platform that provides drag-and-drop design tools, templates, and media assets for creating presentations, social media graphics, videos, documents and more, serving individuals and large enterprises globally.

Industry: Enterprise Software

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Founded: 2012

Glassdoor: 3.9

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

Canva

3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 6 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Sydney

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

•Identify, scope, and solve complex platform problems across multiple teams, including areas not yet fully defined.
•Drive initiatives from design docs through adoption by defining tools, standards, and practices that become engineering norms.
•Architect scalable infrastructure that eliminates friction for engineers and deliver self-service platforms and CLIs.
•Set the observability standard across monitoring, alerting, and health visibility, and support critical platform services through on-call rotation.
•Lead and evolve source control, monorepo and Bazel tooling, code review infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and safe, reliable deployments while staying hands-on in code.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityParental Leave

Key Requirements

•Staff-level background in Platform Engineering with strong programming experience in Python and Go (Java or TypeScript is a plus).
•Proven experience leading complex, cross-team platform initiatives end-to-end and setting the direction others build on.
•Strong experience with AWS and deep Kubernetes knowledge (autoscaling, pod lifecycle, scheduling, configuration).
•Experience shaping CI/CD pipelines at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildkite or similar) and monorepo build tools (Bazel highly valued).
•Practical observability experience and Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation treated as production code).

Experience:Platform engineeringDeveloper workflowsDeveloper toolingInfrastructureObservability

Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringCollaborationStakeholder managementProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:PythonGoJavaTypeScriptAWSKubernetesJenkinsGitLab CIBuildkiteBazelGradleCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeTerraformPulumiCloudFormationObservabilityCLIsMonorepoAI/LLM

Company Brief

Canva

Industry: Enterprise Software

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Founded: 2012

Glassdoor: 3.9

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor