Senior Software Reliability Engineer (Observability) - open to remote across ANZ
Senior Software Reliability Engineer (Observability) - open to remote across ANZ
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Job Description
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 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:
- Being responsible for building and improving our observability platform and tooling which is used by all Canva engineers.
- Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive pragmatic solutions and achieve impactful design decisions.
- Brainstorming researching and prototyping to optimize our tracing and exceptions platforms improve our operational effectiveness and increase reliability.
- Being proactive in improving the tracing user experience and advocating for best practices.
- Finding ways to improve the use of traces and exceptions providing better insights to our engineers.
- Enhancing our exception workflow to help engineers seamlessly capture errors gain actionable insights through clear visualizations and set up high-signal low-noise alerts.
- Participating in team ceremonies knowledge sharing and brainstorming sessions.
- Becoming an observability champion evangelising best practices and guiding other Canvanauts in the observability space.
Youre probably a match if
- You are proficient and happy to code in Python Java or Golang.
- You have deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles.
- You have a solid knowledge of AWS (EC2 EKS Lambda SQS Kinesis S3) or equivalent.
- You have experience deploying and running containerized workloads on a platform like Kubernetes.
- You have experience with Observability Tooling having competency with tools like Elasticsearch Grafana Sentry Jaegar Tracing or similar.
- Experience running highly available and reliable distributed systems with highly scalable data stores.
- You are proficient with infrastructure-as-code - were a Terraform shop but strong experience with other IaC tools will do the trick.
- Not essential; but helpful experience!
- You have experience with OpenTelemetry because it underpins a lot of the infrastructure and tooling that the team owns.
- You have experience writing application code in Java or frontend code in TypeScript since we also maintain the tracing libraries.
- You have experience building and running monitoring infrastructure at scale. For example Petabyte-scale Elasticsearch clusters or similar databases.
- You have experience with data handling at scale.
- You have experience with Clickhouse.
- You have experience with data security data obfuscation and PII detection.
About the team
Youll join The Observability Traces & Exceptions Team responsible for operational insights inside Canva. Our goal is to provide our development team with world-class tools to view how their services are performing in production. We achieve this by combining industry-leading third-party solutions with our own solutions developed in-house.
We work across the entire stack maintaining our TypeScript and Java tracing libraries our tracing infrastructure error reporting libraries and error handling guidelines to name just a few. As we scale all of these areas we require more sophisticated solutions to ensure that Canva developers can continue to grow without compromising on reliability or availability.
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 for more info.
Other stuff to know
We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. Were evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience - youll tackle interactive real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do. In some interviews you may also be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to expect. 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 :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
