Senior Software Engineer: Developer Platform

Job Description Redefine How the World Experiences Design

We're on a mission to make design accessible to everyone, and we need talented engineers like you to help us achieve that goal.

About Us

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, but you have choice in where and how you work. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

You'll Join Our Merge Workflow Team

The primary mission of our team is to provide intuitive ways for Canva Engineers to integrate changes safely and efficiently. We provide tooling, dashboards, pipelines, and processes to manage the entirety of the Canva product's merge process.

About Our Developer Platform Group

We own the coding lifecycle at Canva - from ideas through to production. Our mission is to forge a delightful ecosystem for engineers at Canva, amplifying their craft and enabling them to ship fast and correct, at scale.

Your Key Responsibilities

- Develop self-service infrastructure from the ground up to empower our engineering teams to work more efficiently.
- Work across CI/CD, build systems, test frameworks, cloud providers, and other developer-related domains to ensure Canva's engineering teams continue to scale with the demands of the product suite.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to ensure build best practices and tools are rolled out in every service across the organization.
- Design, build, and optimize developer workflows to build, test, and deploy a monorepo architecture.
- Participate in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews.
- Contribute to improving/maintaining internal developer experience platforms that empower engineers to work efficiently.

What You Need To Succeed

- Strong Computer Engineering/Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns.
- Advanced coding proficiency in Python/Java/GoLang and strong Object Oriented Programming fundamentals.
- Experience building internal tooling for CI/CD, infrastructure, or developer efficiency/productivity.
- A good understanding of the DevOps ecosystem and how to improve developer efficiency.
- Experience working in a modern distributed microservices environment.
- The ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills - both technical and plain language.
- A passion for creating and using your imagination to develop innovative engineering solutions.

What's In It For You

- Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity, and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too.
- We offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave policy, annual Vibe & Thrive allowance, flexible leave options, and more.