Staff Software Engineer – Native Infrastructure
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Staff Software Engineer owning Canva’s native mobile build, release, and monorepo infrastructure. Defining Bazel, CI/CD, React Native, iOS, and Android foundations for Canva’s billions of users.
Responsibilities:
- Own the roadmap for Bazel build rules, React Native bundling and codegen
- Make trade-offs between short-term fixes and long-term build architecture foundations
- Mature Canva's mobile release and deployment tooling, including OTA and staged rollout
- Lead the staged migration of mobile repositories into Canva's monorepo
- Own build, test, and release continuity during the monorepo migration
- Set the quality-gating strategy across the CI/CD pipeline
- Surface build-pipeline reliability and speed problems proactively
- Evolve the React Native build pipeline into a shared web and mobile foundation
- Align Mobile Workflows, Cross Platform, Build Platform, and DevX teams
- Build monitoring and health signals for builds and releases
- Mentor engineers and establish durable technical standards
- Define technical direction for iOS and Android build systems, monorepo strategy, and the React Native build pipeline
Requirements:
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Bazel, Gradle, or Xcode build systems at production scale
- Track record of scoping and delivering complex projects spanning multiple teams
- Strong native engineering background in iOS, Android, or both
- Experience owning CI/CD or release pipelines that other teams depend on
- Ability to balance short-term delivery against long-term architecture
- Documentation and technical practices adopted as engineering standards
- Expertise in Bazel build rules, custom rule sets, and monorepo build configuration
- Experience designing CI/CD quality gates and pipeline stages
- Experience with React Native bundling, codegen, and native module integration
- Xcode build system and native iOS release configuration knowledge
- Gradle and native Android release configuration knowledge
- Experience with OTA updates, staged rollout, and mobile deployment infrastructure
- Experience migrating or operating within a large-scale monorepo
- Nice to have: native bridging or codegen automation across JS and native runtimes
- Nice to have: mobile performance profiling and optimisation
- Nice to have: platform advocacy and adoption of engineering standards
- Nice to have: experience with large established mobile user bases
Benefits:
- Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally
- Interviews conducted virtually
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