Canva

Software Development

SeniorSoftwareEngineer-AIDeveloperToolingWorkflows

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer - AI Developer Tooling Workflows at Canva. Skills: AI tooling, Python, Developer Experience. Solving challenges. Building AI tooling infrastructure”

What You'll Achieve.

accelerating Canva's engineering velocity; evolving beyond standalone AI tools; AI tooling paved paths; orchestrated agentic frameworks; embedding intelligent AI capabilities; reduce developer toil; unlock step-change improvements in productivity; providing engineers with AI-powered workflows; contextually aware; seamlessly integrated; continuously improving; leverage orchestrated multi-agent systems; understand our codebase; conventions; context; dramatically accelerate development

Industry & Context.

Software Development
Problems you'll solve

Solving challenges; troubleshoot complex AI tooling issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Python programming languages, Go programming languages, APIs, integrations, developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, SDLC, implement solutions from technical specifications, collaborate effectively with senior engineers, document technical work clearly

Nice to Have

AI tooling for software engineering, LLMs, AI agents, MCPs, prompt engineering

What You'll Do.

Building AI tooling infrastructure

Enhancing AI tooling infrastructure

Researching AI paved paths

Developing AI paved paths

3rd party AI tooling trial

Troubleshoot AI tooling issues

Codify technical knowledge

Share technical knowledge

Identify knowledge gaps

Lift team capabilities

Creating documentation

Maintaining documentation

Learning from senior engineers

Contribute to AI tooling ecosystem

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

collaborate effectively with senior engineers; work with product team

Communication Scope

communication skills; document technical work clearly

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 in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. 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. What you’d be doing in this role As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve. At the moment, this role is focused on: * Solving challenges no one’s solved before, with access to state-of-the-art tooling, models and infrastructure. * Building and enhancing AI tooling infrastructure, including our MCP implementations and internal AI enabled CLIs, to provide Canva-specific context to AI tools * Being part of researching and developing high-value AI paved paths, including multi-agent AI orchestration, to go beyond code generation to enhance one or multiple parts of the Canva SDLC * Keeping Canva close to the bleeding edge by industry research and 3rd party AI tooling trial, including evaluation, success metrics, and adoption. * Helping troubleshoot complex AI tooling issues across both Platform and Product * Codify and share technical knowledge through documentation and presentations * Providing technical expertise by identifying knowledge gaps and lifting team capabilities * Creating and maintaining technical documentation for AI tooling adoption * Learning from senior engineers and contribute to the continuous improvement of our AI tooling ecosystem You're probably a match if * You have strong experience with the Python and/

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