Staff Production Engineer
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Job Description
Staff Production Engineer improving reliability across Canva’s large-scale design platform. Writing systems software, solving distributed-systems risks, and helping teams ship confidently.
Responsibilities:
- Own long-term accountability for a high-risk technical domain such as sharding core data stores, resource utilisation, or distributed systems at scale
- Write production software that improves reliability, efficiency, and resilience
- Instrument, refactor, and rebuild 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 severity, and improve latency
- Contribute shared platform capabilities when recurring patterns emerge
- Build system-level improvements that help other engineers ship more confidently
- Develop trusted relationships with embedded teams and guide them toward faster, lower-toil delivery
Requirements:
- Experience owning reliability work within large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working as an engineer embedded in or closely partnering with product or feature teams
- 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 unfamiliar large codebases
- Proven influence without authority through technical judgment 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
- Production-scale Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge
- Performance analysis of JVM applications or systems-level processes
- Meaningful AWS cloud infrastructure experience
- Serious production on-call and incident-response experience
- Enterprise SaaS background, JVM internals, multi-region or sharding experience, and eBPF or kernel instrumentation 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
- Remote work option







