Backend Software Engineer - Audio/Video Team

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time-consuming, and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, with additional spaces in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun! This will give you a flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Developing and maintaining backend services related to storing and serving audio and video within Canva.
• Writing design documents for complex new feature initiatives and driving them to completion.
• Collaborating with owners, stakeholders, and engineers across multiple teams to ensure seamless integration and functionality.
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.
• Participating in code reviews, design discussions, and capacity planning.
• Providing periodic on-call support for services owned by the team.

You're probably a match if you have...

• 3+ years of industry experience developing web applications in Java.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases (we use both!).
• Experience working in large distributed cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Experience managing systems operating at high scale and reliability.
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals (e.g., concurrency, data structures, distributed systems).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within small groups.
• A passion for giving and receiving constructive feedback in design reviews and code reviews.
• Experience using AI assistants—and knowing when not to.
• Some experience with Terraform or infrastructure as code (IaC) is a plus!

About the team

The Media Platform Group's mission is to provide a world-class platform for every design ingredient and design template, on every device, wherever you are, whoever you are, at any time. We aim for consistent functionality across audio, video, images, templates, and fonts. We manage a fleet of services that ingest, process, store, track, and serve these ingredients.

The Audio/Video Team handles all incoming audio and video files. Growing this team is of critical importance to Canva as it accelerates the delivery schedules for multiple enterprise-critical projects such as our Digital Asset Manager and support for multi-regional storage.

With 200M+ monthly active users and 2,862,154,441 video uploads so far, our services run at astonishingly high levels of scale. We store large amounts of data with near-perfect reliability, while doing our best to manage infrastructure costs so we can continue to provide our services at low-to-no cost for users all over the world. We’re always facing challenging and interesting problems. As we see it, if we do the same job twice, it should be automated the third time.

What’s in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard – and we do – but you’ll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity, and fun throughout life at Canva. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for success, both in and outside of work:

• 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 well-being, social connection, home office setup, and more.
• Flexible leave options to empower you to recharge and support your personal growth.

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info!

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills, and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please let us know:

• Your pronouns
• Any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva. Even if you don’t feel like your skills match perfectly, we still want to hear from you!

Interviews are conducted virtually.