Canva
Computer Software
PrincipalSolutionEngineer,Ecosystem
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“Principal Solution Engineer, Ecosystem at Canva. Skills: Solution Engineering, Ecosystem Platform, AI Systems Integration, Partner Engagements. Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering. Explain why solutions won't work”
Industry & Context.
Generate realistic option sets; Drive solutions to a decision; Validate proposed solutions; Turn ambiguous partner signal into crisp engineering decisions
Work on Pacific Time hours, Collaborate with engineering teams in AEST
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of software engineering experience, Roles operating at the seam between partner engineering, platform engineering, and product, Built developer platforms, Shipped code in production on platforms used by external developers, Move fluidly between a product roadmap conversation, a system design discussion, and a partner negotiation, Bring a prototype or sample code to a hard conversation, Technically deep on the modern AI platform stack, Communicate directly, Resolve misalignments by writing clearly, Worked inside product stacks that are heterogeneous and move fast, Orient yourself quickly in a codebase you didn't write, Raise the technical bar across Ecosystem engineering by sharing knowledge, feedback and bringing others into partner facing wins
Nice to Have
Hands-on experience shipping or integrating with MCP (Anthropic, OpenAI, Copilot, or Gemini flavours), TypeScript, Comfortable across front-end (React) and server-side JavaScript, Ability to read a Java backend, Track record of turning ambiguous partner signal into crisp engineering decisions that Product and Engineering acted on
What You'll Do.
Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering
Explain why solutions won't work
Generate realistic option sets
Drive solutions to a decision
Hold technical detail on both sides
Translate without losing precision
Set technical direction for Canva's external platform surface
Contribute to strategic direction
Ground partner conversations in working code
Validate proposed solutions against Canva's real architecture
Drive decisions with working code
Sketch changes in code
Drive product-line engineering across external platform surfaces
Ensure overall surface stays coherent
Carry platform direction outward early
Hear direction as it forms
Carry direction to partners
Shape strategic partner and customer engagements
Lead technical relationship end-to-end
Carry decisions back through Canva
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate daily with Canva's engineering teams; Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering; Work across MCP, REST APIs, Apps-in-Canva, and middleware PaaS; Work closely with Ecosystem leadership team; Partner directly with Head of Partnerships
Communication Scope
Communicate directly; Resolve misalignments by writing clearly; Translate without losing precision
Full Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time-consuming, and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and how you can work Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus across the world and co-working spaces in numerous locations in the USA. But you have a 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 work on Pacific Time hours and collaborate daily with Canva's engineering teams in AEST. What you’d be doing in this role Canva's Ecosystem platform sits at the centre of how the world's agentic AI systems connect to visual design. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and the next wave of AI-native platforms are all building on, against, and through our MCP server, REST APIs, and Apps platform. The shape of those integrations is being decided right now, at the engineering layer, in real conversations with real technical counterparts. * Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering. When a partner proposes a solution that won't work, you'll explain why, generate the realistic option set, and drive it to a decision with the owning Canva teams. You'll hold the technical detail on both sides and translate without losing precision. * Set technical direction for Canva's external platform surface. The strategic question of where to invest, deprecate, and evolve doesn't sit inside any single team. You'll contribute to that direction, grounded in partner signal and engineering reality. * Ground partner conversations in working code. At this level, partner conversations need to be grounded in what's actually runnable. You validate proposed solutions against Canva's real architecture to drive decisions that span multiple teams and partners, using working code as the pr
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