Principal Production Engineer

🔥 14 minutes ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏭 Production Engineer

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Canva

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

📚 Education

💰 $200M Venture Round on 2021-09

SaaS • Media • Education

Canva is a versatile online design platform that empowers users to create a wide range of professional designs with ease. From social media posts and presentations to business cards and posters, Canva provides thousands of templates and design tools to help users bring their creative ideas to life. The platform also offers a suite of AI-powered features to enhance creativity and productivity, including tools like Magic Write for copy generation and Magic Edit for photo transformations. Canva caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises, making it an ideal solution for collaborative design and workflow management. It is also committed to sustainability and social impact, offering free educational and nonprofit access to its premium features.

📋 Description

• Define the Production Engineering engagement model with product and infrastructure teams • Lead the most technically complex engagements involving sharding, multi-region architecture, and JVM performance at scale • Set the technical bar and standards for Production Engineering at Canva • Determine pairing strategies and learning goals for staff and mid-level engineers • Grow Production Engineering capability across the organization • Connect Production Engineering work to Canva’s product roadmap and production-readiness decisions • Define and track reliability metrics, including incident severity and duration and clean feature launches • Embed with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, efficiency, resilience, shipping confidence, and reduce toil • Build the practice and calibrate hiring, engagements, and team standards at Principal level

🎯 Requirements

• Experience owning reliability in large-scale distributed systems • Experience leading or shaping technical functions where engineers work across team boundaries • Hands-on coding experience at senior level • Cross-organizational technical influence • Production-scale experience with Java, Go, Rust, C++, or comparable systems language • Production experience with sharding, replication, failure modes, and consistency tradeoffs • Knowledge of Linux internals, including process scheduling, memory, I/O, and network stack • Knowledge of distributed systems, consistent hashing, leader election, consensus, backpressure, and circuit breakers • Experience with observability tooling, including tracing, dashboards, and alerting • Production Kubernetes experience at scheduler level • Experience profiling JVM applications or systems-level processes • Production AWS experience • On-call and incident response experience • Enterprise SaaS background, JVM internals, and multi-region or sharding experience are nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity packages • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more • Flexible leave options • Virtual interviews