1 day ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain lightweight SDKs, dashboards, and CI/PR checks that surface LCP, INP, and CLS performance metrics.
- Embed OpenTelemetry standards and extend data pipelines ingesting billions of real-user events daily.
- Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to create low-overhead metric collection and reusable libraries, CLIs, and tools.
- Build regression checks that statistically flag or block slower changes and provide developer-friendly diff reports.
- Profile, reproduce, and eliminate systemic performance bottlenecks using Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, and similar tools.
- Analyze real-user and synthetic data to identify high-return opportunities for performance improvements.
- Lead performance-monitoring engineering practices, shape team culture, and guide engineering practices across stakeholders.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing, building, and shipping rich JavaScript/TypeScript and React interfaces.
- Comfort working with Node-based services and tools, data pipelines, and modern CI/CD workflows.
- Ability to design statistically sound experiments and use data to guide decisions.
- Strong communication skills for explaining performance data to engineers, product managers, executives, and other stakeholders.
- Ability to influence stakeholders, align priorities, and drive action across product, platform, and leadership organizations.
- Preferred: deep knowledge of web rendering pipelines, main-thread bottlenecks, network protocols, and performance APIs.
- Preferred: hands-on large-scale observability or Real User Monitoring experience with systems such as OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Looker, or Mode.
- Preferred: strong TypeScript proficiency across client- and server-side code.
Benefits
- Equity packages.
- Inclusive parental leave for all parents and carers.
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more.
- Flexible leave options.
- Flexible choice of work location and working arrangement, with campuses in Sydney and Melbourne.
- Permanent employment and virtual interviews.
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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.