Senior Software Engineer – Platform Workflows, Python, Golang

November 21

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Canva

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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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

📚 Education

💰 $200M Venture Round on 2021-09

📋 Description

• Deeply understand the needs and workflows of platform engineers and other consumers of the infrastructure platform at Canva • Write tools, services, configuration and whatever else is required to ensure that platform engineers have a low friction experience shipping new services and capabilities • Consult with internal users and other platform teams to bring clarity and alignment • Take on ownership of our existing configuration frameworks and other infrastructure abstraction tools that help platform engineers expose new platform capabilities to users • Participate in planning rituals at the team and group level to ensure that the needs of platform engineers and infrastructure consumers are prioritised • Work alongside product managers to bring a product mindset to platform engineering at Canva

🎯 Requirements

• You have strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns • You have strong experience with the Python and Go programming languages • You have experience with Kubernetes, ideally including Custom Resource Definitions • You have experience with AWS (and as a plus, GCP) cloud environments • Prior work in a platform engineering capacity is desired but not required • You have experience with AI tooling for use with software engineering, such as Copilot or Claude Code • You have excellent communication and stakeholder engagement • You may benefit from prior experience as a consultant, business analyst, or developer advocate

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too • 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 supports you personally