Canva

Computer Software

SeniorSoftwareEngineer(ReliabilityFoundations)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer (Reliability Foundations) at Canva. Skills: Reliability, Scalability, Production systems, Distributed systems. Design, build, and improve large-scale production systems. Work in different ways depending on the need”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver meaningful, lasting improvements; Focus on delivering outcomes

Industry & Context.

Computer Software
Problems you'll solve

Diagnose and resolve complex issues; Find and fix systemic issues; Scaling limits; Cascading failures; Performance bottlenecks; Fault tolerance gaps; Lead investigations into production issues; Turn what you learn into concrete improvements

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of hands-on experience designing and building large-scale, production-facing systems, backend engineering experience (Java preferred but also Python or Golang), work across the stack when needed, Proven ability to improve the quality, scalability, and reliability of real-world systems through hands-on engineering, Experience contributing to system design and architecture in distributed systems, Ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in production environments, Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers within a team, communication and collaboration skills, Disciplined coding practices, including code reviews, testing, and maintainable system design

Nice to Have

Experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservice architectures (e. g. in AWS or similar environments), Familiarity with observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and using it to debug and improve systems, Experience contributing to shared platforms, libraries, or internal tooling, Experience with data platforms or analytics tooling like Snowflake, Mode Analytics, or Looker

What You'll Do.

and improve large-scale production systems

Work in different ways depending on the need

Build shared platform capabilities

Partner on cross-cutting initiatives

Improve system quality

Jump into partner team codebases

Ship meaningful improvements to production services

Own the outcome for each piece of work

Drive it through to implementation

Partner with multiple teams

Find and fix systemic issues

Lead investigations into production issues

Turn learnings into concrete improvements

Make improvements get adopted

Ensure improvements can be sustained

Help partner teams strengthen engineering practices

Make pragmatic trade-offs

Help set technical direction

Build shared components or libraries

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work in different ways depending on the need; Embed with teams; Build shared platform capabilities; Partner on cross-cutting initiatives; Jump into partner team codebases; Partner with multiple teams; Work with product and platform engineering teams; Work across multiple systems and teams; Solve real problems alongside engineering teams

Communication Scope

Communication skills; Collaboration skills

Process & Methodology

Own the outcome for each piece of work, Shape the solution, Drive it through to implementation, Define and prioritise work, Agree on clear goals, Define what success looks like

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: * Designing, building, and improving large-scale production systems that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable * Working in different ways depending on the need—embed with teams, build shared platform capabilities, or partner on cross-cutting initiatives—to improve system quality * Jumping into partner team codebases and shared systems to ship meaningful improvements to production services * Owning the outcome for each piece of work—help shape the solution and drive it through to implementation * Partnering with multiple teams to find and fix systemic issues in distributed systems—scaling limits, cascading failures, performance bottlenecks, and fault tolerance gaps * Leading investigations into production issues, then turn what you learn into concrete improvements with the teams who own the systems * Making sure improvements get adopted and can be sustained by the teams who own the systems long-term * Mentoring engineers in our team and help partner teams strengthen their engineering practices * Making pragmatic trade-offs that balance reliability, performance, and product velocity * Helping set technica

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