Senior Production Engineering Manager

🔥 15 minutes ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏭 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

• Lead Embedded, one of Production Engineering's two teams • Work across critical production challenges including data protection, safer software changes, platform reliability and observability, and resilience to overload scenarios • Influence engineering leaders and collaborate with teams outside the reporting line • Help engineers navigate different technical and organisational environments • Challenge assumptions and shape important technical decisions • Define which problems the team takes on, how engagements operate, success criteria and impact measurement • 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 strong partnerships • Turn engagement lessons into reusable engineering practices, patterns and capabilities • Develop senior engineers and engagement leads into future technical leaders • Collaborate within Canva's Reliability Platform subgroup and wider Infra supergroup

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading highly experienced software engineers and technical leads through complex or ambiguous work • Experience in software environments where reliability, scalability and production risk genuinely mattered • Experience building trust and influencing without direct reporting authority • Experience leading significant technical initiatives spanning multiple teams or groups • Experience persuading teams to change how they build or operate software • Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to senior stakeholders • Strong grounding in computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading and data structures • Depth in languages such as Go, Python, Java or C++ • Strong working knowledge of system internals, networking and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP • Comfortable reasoning through ambiguous, cross-component systems problems • Familiarity with observability, capacity, failure modes and operational characteristics of production systems • Experience in large-scale or high-criticality environments • Nice to have: prior experience leading Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering or a closely related function • 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 the identity, operating model or scope of a technical function • Must provide pronouns and any reasonable interview adjustments when applying

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity packages • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and support you personally • Virtual interviews