2 months ago
Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own a high-risk technical engagement area involving core data stores, resource utilisation, and distributed systems.
- Write, instrument, refactor, and rebuild production software to improve reliability, efficiency, resilience, latency, and recovery.
- Embed with product and infrastructure teams to guide them toward faster, more confident delivery with less toil.
- Debug unfamiliar large codebases and fix the underlying causes of production problems.
- Develop observability capabilities including tracing, dashboards, alerting, and meaningful service-level objectives.
- Contribute shared platform capabilities when recurring patterns should be addressed beyond the immediate engagement.
- Pair with, mentor, and learn from fellow production engineers.
- Participate in serious production on-call and incident response.
Requirements
- Experience owning reliability work in large-scale distributed systems and writing fixes for production failures.
- Experience working as an engineer embedded in or closely partnered with product or feature teams.
- Commercial production-scale experience with Java, Go, Rust, C++, or a comparable systems language.
- Practical experience with sharding, replication, failure modes, and consistency tradeoffs.
- Knowledge of networking, Linux internals, process scheduling, memory, I/O, and network stacks.
- Understanding of distributed systems patterns including consistent hashing, leader election, consensus, backpressure, and circuit breakers.
- Experience with production observability, Kubernetes orchestration, performance analysis, AWS, and incident response.
- Demonstrated ability to influence systems and teams without formal authority.
- Nice-to-have experience with enterprise SaaS, JVM garbage collection and thread profiling, multi-region or data-store migration work, and eBPF or kernel instrumentation.
Benefits
- Equity packages.
- Inclusive parental leave supporting all parents and carers.
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more.
- Flexible leave options.
- Permanent employment.
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.