Staff Software Engineer – Video Platform

🔥 16 hours ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack 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

• Develop and maintain high-performance C++ services, frameworks, and tools powering Canva's audio and video processing platform • Design and implement distributed systems to ingest, process, store, and deliver multimedia content to millions of users globally • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to enable video editing and playback experiences • Optimise multimedia processing pipelines for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency • Build platform capabilities supporting Canva's video and multimedia ecosystem • Drive engineering excellence through testing, code reviews, operational best practices, and continuous improvement • Troubleshoot complex production challenges and contribute to the evolution of Canva's video infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• Strong commercial experience building highly scalable, secure, and performant backend systems using C++ • Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, memory management, data structures, architecture, and design patterns • Experience designing and operating distributed systems and scalable backend architectures • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and services in production environments • Skill diagnosing, debugging, and resolving complex performance and reliability issues • Experience with modern video codecs such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9, or AV1 • Deep experience with multimedia frameworks and libraries such as FFmpeg and/or GStreamer, including source-level debugging, architecture analysis, performance profiling, and custom patch development • Experience building large-scale video ingestion, storage, transcoding, processing, and delivery systems • Strong understanding of multimedia containers and formats such as MP4 and WebM • Contributions to FFmpeg, GStreamer, or other open-source multimedia projects (nice to have) • Experience with adaptive bitrate streaming technologies such as DASH, HLS, or CMAF (nice to have) • Experience tuning encoding pipelines (nice to have) • Experience working with Java-based services in large-scale distributed environments (nice to have) • Ability to work in Sydney, Australia

🏖️ Benefits

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