Principal Production Engineer — Reliability & Scale Leader

Canva; Queensland; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

Parental leave

Wellbeing allowance

Flexible leave

Job summary

Canva's Production Engineering group is seeking senior executives to shape how reliability is built into Canva's infrastructure. You will embed long-term in high-risk areas, partnering with product and infrastructure teams to drive scalable, reliable systems.

Expect ownership of the most technically challenging engagements and a role shaping the team's technical standards. You will influence product roadmaps, improve incident response, and help Canva land features in production with confidence

Qualifications

• Experience in production at scale with large distributed systems.
• Leadership in cross-team collaborations and long-term engagements.
• Hands-on coding and architecture sense retained at senior level.
• Ability to set technical standards and influence other teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the engagement model between Production Engineering and product/infrastructure teams.
• Lead the most technically complex engagements (multi-region, JVM performance, sharding).
• Set the technical bar for Canva Production Engineering.
• Pair staff and mid-level engineers across engagements to grow capability.
• Connect Production Engineering to the product roadmap to influence readiness before shipping.
• Build the measurement story for incidents, releases, and reliability metrics.
• Leverage engagements to scale engineering practices across the org.

Skills

Production at scale

Technical leadership

Hands-on seniority

Cross-org influence

JVM depth

Distributed systems

Linux internals

Observability tooling

Container orchestration

Performance analysis

Cloud infrastructure

Incident response

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Java

Go

Rust

C++

Job description

Canva's Production Engineering group is seeking senior executives to shape how reliability is built into Canva's infrastructure. You will embed long-term in high-risk areas, partnering with product and infrastructure teams to drive scalable, reliable systems.

Expect ownership of the most technically challenging engagements and a role shaping the team's technical standards. You will influence product roadmaps, improve incident response, and help Canva land features in production with confidence