Senior Software Engineer: Developer Platform

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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 and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work, 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. 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.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Developing self-service infrastructure from the ground up to empower our engineering teams to work more efficiently
• Working across CI/CD, build systems, test frameworks, cloud providers and other developer-related domains as necessary to ensure Canva’s engineering teams continue to scale with the demands of the product suite
• Working with product engineering teams to ensure build best practices and tools are rolled out in every service across the whole organization.
• Designing, building and optimising developer workflows to build, test and deploy a monorepo architecture.
• Participating in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews
• Working to improve/maintain internal developer experience platforms that empower engineers to work efficiently.

You're probably a match if

• You have strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns
• You have advanced coding proficiency in Python/ Java/ GoLang and strong Object Oriented Programming fundamentals
• You have experience building internal tooling for CI/CD, infrastructure, or developer efficiency/productivity
• You have a good understanding of the DevOps ecosystem and how to improve developer efficiency.
• You have experience working in a modern distributed microservices environment.
• You have the ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills - both technical and plain language
• You thrive on teamwork, love being a team player, and enjoy mixing it up with folks from all walks of work life!
• You have a passion for creating and enjoy using your imagination to develop innovative engineering solutions.

About the Team

You'll join the Merge Workflow team, the primary mission is to provide intuitive ways for Canva Engineers to integrate changes safely and efficiently. We provide tooling, dashboards, pipelines and processes to manage the entirety of the Canva product's merge process. This includes merging backend, frontend and infrastructural changes into the main Canva codebase.

The team writes engineer-focused tooling to perform common merge operations, assist in the creation of pipelines and verification processes to ensure changes are validated before merge, and dashboards to visualise a change's journey across the merge process.

About the Group

The Developer Platform Group owns the coding life cycle at Canva – from ideas through to production. Our mission is “To forge a delightful ecosystem for engineers at Canva, amplifying their craft and enabling them to ship fast and correct. At scale.” We create an environment in which developers can do their best work.

We work closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and build solutions to best meet them. Our ecosystem spans platforms such as Git, build systems, CI systems, and knowledge management systems.

Riding the wave of technical development at a hyper-growth company offers a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do some of the best engineering of your life. Tackle complex problems with innovative solutions and enjoy the exhilaration of seeing your contributions amplify developer velocity and workflow at scale. If you crave challenge, love growth and yearn for the satisfaction of seeing real results uplift the developer experience, come and join us in the Developer Platform group.

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.