Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hey, 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 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:
- Deeply understand the needs and workflows of consumers of Canva’s infrastructure platform
- Writing tools, services, configuration and whatever else is required to ensure that our infrastructure platform can be both utilised and iterated on safely and quickly
- Consulting with internal users and other platform teams to bring clarity and alignment
- Taking on ownership of our existing configuration frameworks and other infrastructure abstraction tools that help platform engineers expose new platform capabilities to users
- Participating in planning rituals at the team and group level to ensure that the needs of platform engineers and infrastructure consumers are prioritised
- Working alongside product managers to bring a product mindset to platform engineering at Canva
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 4+ years of experience working with the Python programming language.
- You have experience with Kubernetes, ideally including Custom Resource Definitions
- You have experience with AWS (and as a plus, GCP) cloud environments
- You have prior work in a platform engineering capacity
About the team
Platform Workflows is part of the Developer Workflows subgroup. Our vision is an infrastructure platform that can rapidly evolve to meet fast-changing business needs, with new functionality able to be delivered in days, not weeks. We do this by empowering platform engineers to deliver value quickly, safely, and confidently. Using developer advocacy and a product mindset, we build the paved paths that accelerate platform development, ensuring that the platform can rapidly evolve to meet the needs of all Canva engineers. The Workflows teams, Web, Backend and Platform form the “glue” between Canva engineers and the platform teams. We own the paved path developer experience and help create the tools, services, and configuration necessary for the platform to accelerate all Canvanauts.
This role is a unique blend of developer advocacy, product management and platform engineering. While all team members are software engineers and continue to write code day-to-day, our impact is also realised by our ability to consult with users, understand their needs, and ensure that downstream platform teams are aware of these requirements and are shaping their roadmaps accordingly. We deliver value to the business by ensuring that platform engineers have all the tools and systems at their disposal to rapidly iterate on the platform and deliver new capabilities in response to changing business needs. This role requires a level of customer empathy and consulting ability not usually seen in typical software engineering roles.
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 see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. We’re evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience – you’ll tackle interactive, real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do. In some interviews, you may also be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to expect. 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.
