Canva
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
Software Engineer, Observability, Python, Golang, AWS
November 26
Canva
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
• Being responsible for building and improving our observability platform and tooling, which is used by all Canva engineers • Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive pragmatic solutions and achieve impactful design decisions • Brainstorming, researching and prototyping to optimize our tracing and exceptions platforms, improve our operational effectiveness and increase reliability • Being proactive in improving the tracing user experience and advocating for best practices • Finding ways to improve the use of traces and exceptions, providing better insights to our engineers • Enhancing our exception workflow to help engineers seamlessly capture errors, gain actionable insights through clear visualizations, and set up high-signal, low-noise alerts • Participating in team ceremonies, knowledge sharing and brainstorming sessions • Becoming an observability champion, evangelising best practices and guiding other Canvanauts in the observability space
🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer and proficient in Python, Java or Golang • Deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles • Solid knowledge of AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, S3) or equivalent • Experience deploying and running containerized workloads on a platform like Kubernetes • Experience with Observability Tooling – having competency with tools like Elasticsearch, Grafana, Sentry, Jaegar Tracing or similar • Experience running highly available and reliable distributed systems, with highly scalable data stores • Proficient with infrastructure-as-code - we’re a Terraform shop, but strong experience with other IaC tools will do the trick • Experience with OpenTelemetry because it underpins a lot of the infrastructure and tooling that the team owns is helpful but not essential • Experience writing application code in Java or frontend code in TypeScript, since we also maintain the tracing libraries • Experience building and running monitoring infrastructure at scale, for example, Petabyte-scale Elasticsearch clusters or similar databases • Experience with data handling at scale • Experience with Clickhouse • Experience with data security, data obfuscation and PII detection
🏖️ 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
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