1 month ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and architecture of Canva’s Chromium-based export and rendering pipeline.
- Resolve complex rendering issues, including Chromium upgrade breakages, race conditions, and production incidents.
- Design monitoring and testing infrastructure to detect Chromium regressions and handle upstream output changes.
- Set direction for PDF accessibility and compliance using PDF/UA and WCAG.
- Lead export reliability, performance, format optimization, distributed systems design, and high-volume failure-mode analysis.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, debugging, and technical documentation.
- Work across the Editing Platform group to ensure new editor features work reliably in exported files.
Requirements
- Deep experience with Chromium or another browser rendering engine, including work inside the engine or comparable large codebase.
- Strong C++ skills and the ability to understand and debug code written by others.
- Background in rendering pipelines, graphics programming, or print production systems.
- Strong Java backend engineering experience.
- Experience owning a technical domain end to end, including architecture, trade-offs, and operational consequences.
- Experience debugging layered systems across multiple codebases and languages and leading others through investigations.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
- Experience building or maintaining systems with frequently changing upstream dependencies.
- PDF specification knowledge or experience with PDF generation and post-processing is preferred.
- Experience with accessibility standards for document or file output is preferred.
Benefits
- Permanent employment.
- Interviews are conducted virtually.
- Reasonable interview-process adjustments are available upon request.
About Canva
Canva builds a web-based visual design and collaboration platform used by individuals, teams, schools, and small businesses to create presentations, documents, social posts, videos, and more. The company monetizes via subscriptions (Canva Pro, Teams, and Enterprise), paid stock media, and optional print services. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Canva is privately held and operates globally with hubs in Australia and beyond.