Canva
Computer Software
SeniorSoftwareEngineer(Observability)
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“Senior Software Engineer (Observability) at Canva. Skills: Observability platforms, Metrics, Continuous profiling, Data pipelines. Design observability platforms. Build observability platforms”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proficient and happy to code in Python, Golang, and/or Java, Deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles, Proficient with infrastructure-as-code, Practical experience with and knowledge of AWS services (EC2, EKS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, S3, MSK) or equivalent, Experience with Observability technologies – having competency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent, Experience with highly reliable and available high throughput distributed data pipeline systems, with highly scalable databases
Nice to Have
Deep experience with OpenTelemetry, Experience designing, building, and running metrics and monitoring infrastructure at a large scale, Experience with distributed Prometheus clusters (Thanos, Cortex, Mimir, M3) or similar databases, Experience with data handling / pipelining at scale (experience with Kinesis and Kafka is highly regarded), Experience with Kubernetes, particularly running stateful workloads at scale, Experience with data security, data obfuscation, Experience with alerting and SLA/SLO theory and industry best practices
What You'll Do.
Design observability platforms
Build observability platforms
Improve observability platforms
Provide technical leadership
Drive pragmatic solutions
Dive into design decisions
Optimize metrics platforms
Optimize profiling platforms
Refine operational effectiveness
Improve metrics querying
Improve profiling querying
Improve visualization user experience
Advocate for best practices
Participate in team ceremonies
Become observability champion
Evangelize best practices
Guide other engineers
Identify cross-functional solutions
Advocate for cross-functional solutions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Participating in team ceremonies; Knowledge sharing; Brainstorming sessions; Advocating for solutions cross-functionally
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: * Being responsible for designing, building and continuously improving our observability platforms, pipelines, and tooling that are used by all Canva engineers. * Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive pragmatic solutions and dive into impactful design decisions. * Brainstorming, researching, prototyping to optimize our metrics and continuous profiling platforms, as well as refining their operational effectiveness and reliability. * Being proactive in improving the metrics and continuous profiling querying, visualisation and monitoring user experience, and advocating for best practices. * Participating in team ceremonies, knowledge sharing, brainstorming sessions etc. * Becoming an observability champion, evangelising the best practices and guiding other Canva engineers in the observability space. * Identifying and advocating for solutions cross-functionally to ensure all Canva engineers can make the best use of our metrics, continuous profiling, and insights platforms. You're probably a match if: * You are proficient and happy to code in Python, Golang, and/or Java. * You have deep knowledge
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