Staff Production Engineer

🔥 15 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

• Own a long-term engagement area within one of Canva's highest-risk technical domains • Write production software to improve reliability, efficiency, and resilience • Instrument, refactor, and rebuild software components that cause problems at scale • Work embedded alongside product and infrastructure teams • Pair with, mentor, and learn from fellow production engineers • Reduce incidents, accelerate recovery, lower incident severity, and improve latency • Contribute shared platform capabilities when recurring patterns emerge • Build system-level leverage by improving how engineers develop on top of critical systems • Develop trusted relationships with embedded teams and guide them toward shipping faster with more confidence and less toil

🎯 Requirements

• Experience owning reliability work within large-scale distributed systems • Experience working as an engineer embedded in or closely partnering with a product or feature team • Production-scale experience with Java, Go, Rust, C++, or a comparable systems language • Practical experience with sharding, replication, failure modes, and consistency tradeoffs • Ability to debug large, unfamiliar codebases • Proven influence without authority through technical expertise and trust • Networking depth • Linux internals and kernel-level understanding • Knowledge of distributed systems patterns including consistent hashing, leader election, consensus, backpressure, and circuit breakers • Experience with observability tooling, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and SLOs • Kubernetes and production-scale container orchestration experience • Performance profiling of JVM applications or systems-level processes • Meaningful AWS cloud infrastructure experience • Serious production-environment on-call and incident-response experience • Enterprise SaaS background (nice to have) • JVM internals experience, including GC tuning and thread profiling (nice to have) • Multi-region or sharding experience (nice to have) • eBPF or kernel instrumentation experience (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 • Flexible remote work arrangements