Production Engineering Manager

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Canva

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 Embedded, one of Production Engineering's two teams • Lead engineers working across critical data protection, safer software changes, reliability and observability, and resilience tooling and frameworks • Build trust and influence engineering leaders across teams outside the reporting line • Help engineers navigate different technical and organisational environments • Shape technical decisions and challenge assumptions • Define which problems Embedded takes on, how engagements work, success measures and the team's operating model • Create an environment where experienced engineers can do their best work • Set direction, build psychological safety, provide direct coaching and develop senior engineers' technical and organisational influence • Focus Embedded on high-impact production problems and make outcomes measurable • Develop a scalable engagement model without losing technical quality, coaching quality or close partnerships • Turn engagement lessons into reusable engineering practices, patterns and capabilities across Canva • Develop senior engineers and engagement leads into the next generation of technical leaders

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading highly experienced software engineers and technical leads through complex or ambiguous work • Experience coaching people operating with significant autonomy • Experience in software environments where reliability, scalability and production risk genuinely mattered • Experience building trust from a standing start where influence mattered more than reporting lines • Experience leading significant technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or groups from problem definition through delivery • Experience persuading teams to change how they build or operate software • Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to senior stakeholders • Ability to create an environment where engineers can challenge ideas, learn and receive direct feedback • Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading and data structures • Depth in Go, Python, Java or C++ sufficient to engage with designs, implementation choices and technical trade-offs • Strong working knowledge of system internals, networking and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP • Ability to reason through ambiguous problems spanning multiple components, teams and constraints • Strong understanding of system design, architecture and engineering patterns • Familiarity with observability, capacity, failure modes and operational characteristics of production systems • Experience in large-scale or high-criticality environments where reliability failures have meaningful consequences • Nice to have: prior SRE/PE management experience • Nice to have: experience with large-scale storage, CDN, networking or distributed infrastructure • Nice to have: history of developing senior engineers and technical leads • Nice to have: experience defining a technical function's identity, operating model or scope

🏖️ Benefits

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

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