Production Engineering Manager

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Production Engineering Manager leading Canva’s Core team. Building reliable, scalable engineering capabilities across Canva’s infrastructure and reliability organisation.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead Core, one of Production Engineering's two teams
  • Lead software engineers responsible for Production Engineering services and broader cross-team engineering problems
  • Turn complex or loosely defined problems into focused engineering goals and deliver them
  • Challenge technical assumptions, understand trade-offs and support strong engineering decisions
  • Define Core's focus, priorities and future problem areas
  • Shape initiative structure and measurement
  • Turn lessons from individual projects into reusable capability across Canva
  • Set team priorities, coach engineers, create psychological safety and support organisational fluency and influence
  • Build reliable services and reusable engineering standards at scale
  • Strengthen the Core–Embedded feedback loop
  • Grow engineers' ability to handle complex technical and cross-team problems

Requirements:

  • Experience leading software engineers through complex or ambiguous technical work
  • Experience coaching engineers to grow skills and autonomy
  • Experience in software environments where reliability, scalability and production risk matter
  • Experience owning significant technical initiatives through delivery across multiple teams
  • Experience driving adoption of new tools, practices or ways of working
  • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and set direction
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading and data structures
  • Depth in Go, Python, Java or C++
  • Strong knowledge of system internals, networking and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
  • Systems design, architecture and engineering patterns
  • Familiarity with observability, capacity, failure modes and production systems
  • Experience in large-scale or high-criticality environments
  • Prior SRE/Production Engineering management experience, infrastructure exposure, developing technical leaders and function-building experience are nice to have

Benefits:

  • Equity packages
  • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
  • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
  • Flexible leave options
  • Virtual interviews