Production Engineering Manager

🔥 15 minutes ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏭 Production Engineer

👻 Ghost score 11%

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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

• Lead Core, one of Production Engineering's two teams • Lead software engineers responsible for Production Engineering services and broader cross-team engineering problems • Turn complex or loosely defined problems into focused engineering goals and deliver them • Challenge technical assumptions, understand trade-offs and support strong engineering decisions • Define Core's focus, priorities and future problem areas • Shape initiative structure and measurement • Turn lessons from individual projects into reusable capability across Canva • Set team priorities, coach engineers, create psychological safety and support organisational fluency and influence • Build reliable services and reusable engineering standards at scale • Strengthen the Core–Embedded feedback loop • Grow engineers' ability to handle complex technical and cross-team problems

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading software engineers through complex or ambiguous technical work • Experience coaching engineers to grow skills and autonomy • Experience in software environments where reliability, scalability and production risk matter • Experience owning significant technical initiatives through delivery across multiple teams • Experience driving adoption of new tools, practices or ways of working • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and set direction • Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading and data structures • Depth in Go, Python, Java or C++ • Strong knowledge of system internals, networking and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP • Systems design, architecture and engineering patterns • Familiarity with observability, capacity, failure modes and production systems • Experience in large-scale or high-criticality environments • Prior SRE/Production Engineering management experience, infrastructure exposure, developing technical leaders and function-building 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