Engineering Manager (Infra) - Cloud Enablement

2 Months ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As the Engineering Manager for the Cloud Enablement Team, you will lead a team of engineers focusing on cost efficiency and compliance in Canva’s infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include guiding strategic direction, enabling developer-friendly governance, and building scalable and secure systems. The team focuses on ensuring cloud footprint compliance and cost optimization without hindering innovation. This role involves leading the team, driving strategic direction across FinOps and compliance automation, partnering with stakeholders, supporting operational excellence, developing high performers, and advocating for governance.
Must have:
  • Led platform or infrastructure teams
  • Understand cloud cost optimization and compliance
  • Strong communicator, align stakeholders
  • Build high-trust team cultures
  • Strategic, adaptable, solves challenges

Job Details

Company Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey, hello, hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!

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. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Auckland. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

Job Description

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. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

As the Engineering Manager for the Cloud Enablement Team, you will lead and support a high-impact group of 5 engineers (with opportunity to scale), focused on embedding cost efficiency and compliance into Canva’s infrastructure foundations. Your leadership will be essential in guiding the team’s strategic direction, enabling developer-friendly governance, and building systems that scale securely and sustainably.

The team’s mission is clear: ensure our cloud footprint is continuously compliant and cost-optimised - without slowing down innovation. From driving platform-wide efficiency programs to automating compliance by design, your team plays a critical role in Canva’s ability to scale responsibly.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

  • Leading a high-impact team focused on cloud cost optimisation and compliance at scale.
  • Guiding strategic direction across FinOps, compliance automation and cloud landing zones.
  • Partnering with security, finance, and platform teams to drive data-informed governance.
  • Supporting operational excellence while delivering business outcomes that scale.
  • Developing high performers and growing the team’s capabilities for Canva’s future needs.
  • Advocating for governance as an enabler - not a blocker - for innovation.

You're probably a match if

  • You’ve led platform or infrastructure teams through complex technical landscapes.
  • You understand cloud cost optimisation and compliance (especially in AWS & GCP).
  • You’re a strong communicator who can align technical and business stakeholders.
  • You build high-trust team cultures and lead with empathy and clarity.
  • You’re strategic, adaptable, and thrive in solving ambiguous challenges.
  • You love making governance invisible, scalable, and developer-friendly.

About the team

The Cloud Enablement team sits within the Engineering Governance subgroup. Our mission is to enable secure, compliant, and cost-efficient engineering - without slowing anyone down.

We focus on zero-touch production access, compliance by design, cost visibility, and strategic savings. We aim to inject the right information into engineers workflows so they can move fast and responsibly. We believe governance should work for teams, not against them.

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 woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

  • 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

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 tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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