Canva

Technology

PrincipalProductionEngineer

A$250–350k ~AI est. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Principal Production Engineer at Canva. Skills: Production Engineering, Reliability. Define engagement model. Lead complex engagements”

What You'll Achieve.

Incident severity trending down; Incident duration trending down; Feature launches going cleanly; Compounding at organization scale

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Production at scale, Technical leadership in embedded models, Hands-on through seniority

What You'll Do.

Define engagement model

Lead complex engagements

Pair strategy across team

Connect to product roadmap

Build measurement story

Drive organizational scale

Develop trusted relationships

Guide teams to ship velocity

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with product teams; Embedded with product teams; Work with infrastructure teams; Pairing strategy across team; Work with engineering leadership

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