2 months ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own long-term accountability for a high-risk technical domain, including sharding, resource utilization, and distributed-systems challenges.
- Write and improve production software through instrumentation, refactoring, and system redesign.
- Work embedded with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, delivery confidence, and system performance.
- Build shared platform capabilities when recurring patterns warrant broader investment.
- Improve incident frequency, severity, recovery time, latency, and customer experience metrics.
- Mentor and collaborate with fellow production engineers and influence partner teams without formal authority.
Requirements
- Experience owning reliability work in large-scale distributed systems and fixing production issues directly through code.
- 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, consistency tradeoffs, and other distributed-systems patterns.
- Ability to debug unfamiliar, large codebases and identify and fix root causes.
- Strong knowledge of networking, Linux internals, observability, Kubernetes, AWS, performance analysis, and production incident response.
- Experience profiling JVM applications or systems processes and participating in serious production on-call rotations.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise SaaS, JVM tuning, multi-region or data-store migration work, sharding, and eBPF or kernel instrumentation.
Benefits
- Equity packages.
- Inclusive parental leave for all parents and carers.
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and related needs.
- 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.