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Staff Production Engineer improving reliability, performance, and resilience across Canva’s large-scale design platform. Embedding with product and infrastructure teams to solve distributed-systems risks.
Responsibilities:
- Own a long-term engagement area within one of Canva's highest-risk technical domains
- Write production software to improve reliability, efficiency, and resilience
- Instrument, refactor, and rebuild software components that cause problems at scale
- Work embedded alongside product and infrastructure teams
- Pair with, mentor, and learn from fellow production engineers
- Reduce incidents, accelerate recovery, lower incident severity, and improve latency
- Contribute shared platform capabilities when recurring patterns emerge
- Build system-level leverage by improving how engineers develop on top of critical systems
- Develop trusted relationships with embedded teams and guide them toward shipping faster with more confidence and less toil
Requirements:
- Experience owning reliability work within large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working as an engineer embedded in or closely partnering with a product or feature team
- Production-scale experience with Java, Go, Rust, C++, or a comparable systems language
- Practical experience with sharding, replication, failure modes, and consistency tradeoffs
- Ability to debug large, unfamiliar codebases
- Proven influence without authority through technical expertise and trust
- Networking depth
- Linux internals and kernel-level understanding
- Knowledge of distributed systems patterns including consistent hashing, leader election, consensus, backpressure, and circuit breakers
- Experience with observability tooling, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and SLOs
- Kubernetes and production-scale container orchestration experience
- Performance profiling of JVM applications or systems-level processes
- Meaningful AWS cloud infrastructure experience
- Serious production-environment on-call and incident-response experience
- Enterprise SaaS background (nice to have)
- JVM internals experience, including GC tuning and thread profiling (nice to have)
- Multi-region or sharding experience (nice to have)
- eBPF or kernel instrumentation experience (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
- Flexible remote work arrangements
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