Senior Software Engineer Developer Experience (open to remote across ANZ)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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:

Owning End-to-End Technical Solutions:

• Designing documenting and implementing complex infrastructure projects spanning multiple systems and domains
• Driving projects from initial design doc through stakeholder buy-in implementation testing rollout and adoption

Building Developer-Facing Tools & Automation:

• Creating pragmatic automation that eliminates repetitive manual work for engineers
• Building self-service platforms and CLIs that reduce dependency on platform teams
• Developing monitoring alerting and diagnostic tools that proactively surface issues

Collaborating & Enabling Engineering Teams:

• Partnering with engineering teams to understand pain points and gather requirements
• Translating business needs and technical constraints into scalable solutions
• Sharing knowledge through documentation tech talks and mentorship of junior engineers
• Participating in on-call rotation for critical platform services

Youre probably a match if

• You have a strong background in Platform Engineering with solid programming experience in Python and Go; experience with Java or TypeScript is a plus.
• You have a proven track record of building and operating systems at scale
• You have experience supporting large engineering organizations (1000 engineers)
• You have strong experience with AWS or GCP (we use AWS)
• You have experience with Containerization & Orchestration: Thorough Kubernetes experience in production environments
• You have experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Built and maintained complex pipelines at scale (Jenkins GitLab CI Buildkite etc.)
• You have experience with Bazel Gradle or similar monorepo build tools (Bazel experience highly valued)
• You have Observability experience: Implemented comprehensive monitoring logging and alerting
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform Ansible or CloudFormation

Highly Valued (Nice to Have)

• Experience with release automation and deployment safety mechanisms
• Background in developer tooling
• Contributions to open source infrastructure or developer tools
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into developer workflows
• Prior work on build performance optimisation or test infrastructure at scale

About The Group

The Developer Experience (DevX) group makes software development at Canva faster easier and more enjoyable. Through three focused subgroupsAutomation Pipeline Developer Workflows and Build & CollaborationDevX provides the essential platforms tools and infrastructure that streamline the entire development journey. From optimising the inner loop and code collaboration to automating testing and releases to defining standards and partnering across platform teams were focused on removing friction and empowering Canvanuats to ship quality work with speed and confidence.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer in DevX youll own critical infrastructure that directly impacts every engineer at Canva. Youll work across three potential domains depending on team placement:

• Automation Pipeline: Build and maintain CI/CD systems test infrastructure release automation and deployment safety mechanisms
• Developer Workflows: Optimise developer experience across the SDLC including developer environments (local and remote) build system performance IDE integrations and AI-assisted development tooling
• Build & Collaboration: Maintain source control systems monorepo tooling build systems (Bazel) code review infrastructure and developer environments

Your work will focus on high-leverage projects that eliminate systemic frictionwhether thats reducing build times automating release processes or building self-service platforms that empower teams to move faster independently.

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 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 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