Staff Software Engineer - Video Performance - (Bay area only)

Canva
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 262,000 - 329,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Prioritization","Data-driven decision-making","Cross-team influence","Problem-solving"]

Own end-to-end performance for video creation and editing across web, iOS, and Android, including real-time preview, effects, and export. Define video performance metrics and service-level objectives, then build the measurement layer with telemetry, tracing, dashboards, alerting, profiling, benchmarking, and regression detection. Identify bottlenecks across the client, native video engine, on-device ML, and backend pipelines, shipping measurable improvements to latency, stability, memory, and battery life.

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Staff Software Engineer - Video Performance - (Bay area only)

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end performance for video creation and editing across web, iOS, and Android, including real-time preview, effects, and export. Define video performance metrics and service-level objectives, then build the measurement layer with telemetry, tracing, dashboards, alerting, profiling, benchmarking, and regression detection. Identify bottlenecks across the client, native video engine, on-device ML, and backend pipelines, shipping measurable improvements to latency, stability, memory, and battery life.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own performance across the full video creation lifecycle across web, iOS, and Android, including template load, media import, timeline scrubbing, real-time preview, playback, effects, and export.
  • •Define video performance metrics and service level objectives that track what users actually notice.
  • •Build the measurement layer with telemetry, tracing, dashboards, alerting, regression detection, plus profiling and benchmarking tooling, device labs, and automated performance suites.
  • •Ship measurable improvements to latency, frame stability, memory, and battery life by collaborating across product and critical native paths (native engine, shaders, ML-powered effect pipelines).
  • •Work with the Native Video Engine, on-device ML, and Editing teams to rework hot paths for better parallelism, caching, hardware acceleration, and asynchronous processing.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 262,000 - 329,000 annually
Perks:EquityHealth Insurance401kParental LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrated ability to make systems measurably faster and explain optimizations using metrics and data.
  • •Experience building performance at the client layer (web, mobile, or native) and drilling into backend/platform code when needed.
  • •Experience creating performance tooling relied on by other engineers, including profiling, tracing/instrumentation, benchmarking, regression suites, and telemetry pipelines.
  • •Strong understanding of concurrency, memory behavior, and CPU/GPU cost models to diagnose why things are slow.
  • •Working understanding of video pipelines (playback, codecs, container formats, frame-accurate seeking, composition) or strong appetite to learn quickly.
Experience:Performance engineeringVideo pipelinesMultimediaOn-device MLGraphics rendering
Skills:PrioritizationData-driven decision-makingCross-team influenceProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C++RustOpenGLMetalVulkanWebGPUWebAssemblyCoreMLTFLiteTensorRTPerfInstrumentsPerfettoAndroid Studio ProfilerChrome DevToolsTelemetryTracingDashboardsAlertingRegression detection

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
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