Canva

Technology

StaffProductionEngineer

A$185–265k ~AI est. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for mid candidates.

The Brief

“Staff Production Engineer at Canva. Skills: Production engineering, Reliability engineering, Distributed systems. Own an engagement area. Take long-term accountability”

What You'll Achieve.

Fewer incidents; Faster recovery; Lower severity; Latency improvements; Positive customer experience impact

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Production at scale experience, Embedded delivery experience, JVM or systems depth, Distributed systems in practice, Debugging large codebases, Influence without authority

Nice to Have

Kubernetes experience a plus

What You'll Do.

Own an engagement area

Take long-term accountability

Write production software

Strive for fewer incidents

Strive for faster recovery

Strive for lower severity

Strive for latency improvements

Bring back shared capability

Develop trusted relationships

Guide teams to ship velocity

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Embedded alongside teams; Work with product teams; Work with infrastructure teams

Full Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, , 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 Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect. This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. 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 The Production Engineering team sits at the intersection of software engineering and the hardest reliability problems in Canva's infrastructure. Writing software that changes how production behaves at 240M MAUs and growing. The strategic bet is a different model entirely. Canva's own take on what production reliability looks like, built for how we work. Senior software engineers embedded long-term in the areas that carry the most technical risk, working shoulder to shoulder with product teams, close enough to the roadmap to shape how it lands in production before the problems compound. Not operationalising systems. Not running alerts. Writing software that changes how production behaves. The engineers who do this work well have gone deep in systems most people only operate. They can walk into a codebase they didn't write, understand what's actually happening at scale, win the technical respect of the team they're embedded with, and then improve the software to make it more reliable, more efficient, and more resilient. At the moment, this role is focused on: * Owning an engagement area: Taking long-term accounta

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