Software Engineer - Developer Platform - Remote across ANZ

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey gday mabuhay kia ora hallo vtejte!

Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and youre probably keen to find out whats on offer so well get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and coworking spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Assisting in improving Canvas remote developer environments for engineers.
• Building and delivering solutions to improve the local developer experience at Canva
• Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive pragmatic solutions and dive into impactful design decisions.
• Brainstorming researching and prototyping to optimize our remote developer environment platform improve our operational effectiveness and increase developer productivity.
• Being proactive in improving the tracing user experience and advocating for best practices.
• Participating in team ceremonies knowledge sharing and brainstorming sessions.
• Finding innovating new ways to leverage remote developer environment to make engineers more happy and productive at their work .

Youre probably a match if

• You have strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency multithreading data structures architecture and various design patterns
• You have a willingness to learn modern development tools such as Bazel
• You have a deep understanding of the Linux OS internals
• You have deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure
• You have experience with containerization
• You have experience building internal tooling for infrastructure or developer efficiency/productivity
• Terraform and GitOps principles for automation and deployment are highly valued
• You have demonstrated selfmotivation and ownership over complex problems and their solutions with a strong sense of accountability.
• Youre passionate about engineering excellence systems architecture and meeting nonfunctional requirements.
• You have a proven ability to foster team collaboration driving collective success through shared challenges and goals.

About the Group

The Developer Platform Group owns the coding life cycle at Canva from ideas through to production. Our mission is To forge a delightful ecosystem for engineers at Canva amplifying their craft and enabling them to ship fast and correct. At scale. We create an environment in which developers can do their best work.

Youll be joining the Developer Environment team whose mission is to uplift the local development experience for our engineers. Working directly with teams across the group your role will focus on making engineers local development more pleasant and productive. Youll collaborate with other engineers to identify pain points and work with the team to address them.

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Environment team youll get to work with Developer Platform Product Managers and leadership to align on strategic priorities the roadmap and initiatives within the team.

Whats in it for you

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard and we do but youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Heres a taste of whats on offer:

• 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

Check out lifeatcanva for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime