Senior Software Engineer - Performance Monitoring (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 co-working spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if youre near one) at home or a bit of both its up to you. 

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:

To deliver best-in-class performance monitoring across Canva youll drive initiatives across three key areas:

Building the right tooling & infrastructure

• Designing and maintaining lightweight SDKs dashboards and CI/PR checks that surface key performance metrics like LCP INP and CLS.
• Embedding OpenTelemetry standards and extending pipelines that ingest billions of real-user events daily.
• Collaborating with platform and infrastructure teams to enable low-overhead metric collection through reusable libraries CLIs and tools.

Strengthening performance analysis & guardrails

• Rolling out no-merge-if-slower checks that statistically flag or block regressions complete with developer-friendly diff reports.
• Investigating systemic bottlenecks end-to-end using tools like Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse to reproduce and resolve issues.
• Mining real-user and synthetic data to identify high-ROI opportunities to improve monitoring tools and uncover performance gaps.

Driving enablement & a performance-first culture

• Publishing guides and playbooks to help product teams triage and resolve issues quickly.
• Leading technical reviews mentoring sessions and brown-bag talks to embed fast by default into engineering workflows.
• Bootstrapping a performance knowledge MCP server and AI-powered chatbot to provide context-aware performance support across Canva.

Youre probably a match if you have:

• JavaScript frontend expertise Proven experience designing building and shipping rich JavaScript/TypeScript interfaces using React.
• Full-stack fluency Comfortable working across the stack diving into Node-based services data pipelines and modern CI/CD workflows when performance demands it.
• A data-driven mindset You balance intuition with evidence design statistically sound experiments and let data guide your decisions.
• Clear communication skills You can turn a flame graph or p95 latency spike into a compelling story for engineers PMs and executives alike.
• Stakeholder influence & managing up Skilled at aligning priorities and driving action across product platform and leadership teams.

Bonus points if you also have:

• Deep web-performance knowledge Expertise in rendering pipelines main-thread bottlenecks network protocols and the latest performance APIs.
• Experience with large-scale observability & RUM Hands-on familiarity with tools like Real User Monitoring OpenTelemetry Datadog Looker or Modeespecially at high event scale.
• Strong TypeScript skills Comfortable writing robust well-typed code across both client and server environments.

About the team

Our ambition hasnt changed since day one: make Canva the fastest graphic design platform on the planet. As a Senior Engineer in the Performance Monitoring team youll lead the chargebuilding tools shaping culture and guiding engineering practices so that brilliant performance is the default not a nice-to-have.

About the role

At Canva performance isnt just a metricits a product feature. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Performance Monitoring team youll be the specialist who turns complex telemetry into tangible speed for millions of designers worldwide.

• Performance guardian You own the end-to-end observability stack for real-user monitoring synthetic tests and alerting pipelinesensuring regressions never reach production.
• Platform builder From TypeScript-first SDKs to CI pipelines youll craft the tooling that enables every Canva engineer to measure diagnose and fix performance issues in real time.
• Culture catalyst Youll champion a performance-first mindset by leading operational reviews writing playbooks and mentoring teammatesso that fast becomes our default expectation.
• Cross-product collaborator Whether its the design editor templates marketplace or AI features youll partner with frontend backend and infrastructure groups to make every surface feel instant.

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 stack 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

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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.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. 

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time