Staff Software Engineer – Experiments Platform
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Staff Software Engineer building Canva's backend experimentation platform for design products. Leading distributed systems, A/B testing infrastructure 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
- Help build safer and more intuitive experimentation capabilities
- Reinforce good experimentation practices, surface signals faster and alert early when things go wrong
- Explore automation of experimentation analysis using AI
- Take ownership of significant technical problems
- Work with senior leaders across Canva and shape the platform's future direction
- Collaborate with teams building the platform
- Support engineers configuring and launching experiments
- Collaborate with data scientists who analyze experimentation data
- Collaborate with product teams using insights to decide what should roll out, change or stop
- Collaborate broadly across Canva engineering and data science organizations
Requirements:
- Experience building backend systems or platforms that other engineers depend on
- 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
- Understanding of 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
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to transfer them between languages
- Java is useful but not a hard requirement
- Nice to have: direct experimentation, A/B testing, feature-management or rollout infrastructure experience
- Nice to have: background spanning software engineering and data science, data engineering or analytics engineering
- Nice to have: feature flagging, user targeting, progressive rollout or automated guardrail systems experience
- Nice to have: statistical intuition and comfort working with experimentation and statistics
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 work arrangements: work from Canva spaces, home, or a mix of both
- Virtual interviews
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