Staff Software Engineer – Experiments Platform

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Staff Software Engineer advancing Canva's experimentation platform for backend teams. Building safer experiment targeting, rollout, measurement and AI-assisted analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide senior technical leadership across backend systems behind Canva's experimentation programme
  • Evolve the platform used to set up experiments, target users, expose variants and measure outcomes
  • Reinforce good experimentation practices, surface signals faster and alert early when things go wrong
  • Explore automation of analysis using AI to help teams learn faster and iterate
  • Own significant technical problems
  • Work with senior leaders across Canva
  • Shape the platform's future direction with platform-building teams
  • Collaborate across Canva's engineering and data science organisations
  • Support shared experimentation capabilities used by engineers, data scientists and product teams

Requirements:

  • Experience building backend systems or platforms used by other engineers
  • Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, feature-management or progressive-rollout systems in a large engineering environment
  • Experience taking ambiguous engineering problems, forming technical direction and helping engineers move toward an outcome
  • Experience building internal platforms or capabilities and driving adoption
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Experience designing reliable backend and distributed systems
  • Ability to reason about scalability, availability, consistency and failure modes
  • Familiarity with data engineering, analytics engineering or large-scale data processing
  • Familiarity with experiment assignment, targeting, variants, feature flags, metrics, guardrails and progressive rollout
  • Java is useful but not a hard requirement
  • Direct experience with experimentation, A/B testing, feature-management or rollout infrastructure is a nice to have
  • Background spanning software engineering and data science, data engineering or analytics engineering is a nice to have
  • Experience with feature flagging, user targeting, progressive rollout or automated guardrail systems is a nice to have
  • Comfort with experimentation and statistics is valuable

Benefits:

  • Equity packages
  • Inclusive parental leave policy supporting all parents and carers
  • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup and more
  • Flexible leave options
  • Flexible work arrangements: work from Canva spaces, home, or a mix of both