Staff Frontend Engineer - Performance Monitoring

Canva; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

Inclusive parental leave policy

Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance

Flexible leave options

Job summary

Canva is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer for Performance Monitoring to design, build, and maintain metrics-driven tooling across client and server boundaries. You’ll work on lightweight SDKs, dashboards, and CI/PR checks surfacing core performance signals such as LCP, INP, and CLS, while embedding OpenTelemetry standards across billions of events daily.

You’ll collaborate with platform and infra teams, deploy no-merge-if-slower checks, and investigate systemic bottlenecks using Chrome DevTools

Qualifications

• Full-stack fluency – comfortable diving into Node-based services and data pipelines.
• Data-driven mindset – balance intuition with evidence and design sound experiments.
• Clear communicator – translate performance signals into actionable insights for engineers and leaders.
• Stakeholder influence – collaborate across org levels to align priorities and drive action.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain lightweight SDKs, dashboards, and CI/PR checks surface key performance metrics (LCP, INP, CLS).
• Embed OpenTelemetry standards and extend data pipelines ingesting billions of real-user events daily.
• Partner with platform and infra teams to enable low-overhead metric collection and reusable tooling.
• Launch no-merge-if-slower checks and provide developer-friendly diff reports.
• Run end-to-end investigations to profile and eliminate bottlenecks using Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, etc.
• Mine real-user and synthetic data to surface high-ROI fixes in monitoring tools.

Skills

Full-stack fluency

Data-driven mindset

Clear communicator

Stakeholder influence

Strong TypeScript chops

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Looker

Mode

Job description

Staff Frontend Engineer - Performance Monitoring

• Full-time
• Recruitment type: Permanent

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne. 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 you’d be doing in this role

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

• You'll design and maintain lightweight SDKs, dashboards, and CI/PR checks that surface key performance metrics (LCP, INP, CLS).
• You'll embed OpenTelemetry standards and extend data pipelines that ingest billions of real-user events every day.
• You'll partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure low-overhead metric collection, shipping reusable libraries, CLIs, and tools.
• You'll launch "no-merge-if-slower" checks that statistically flag or block regressions, with developer-friendly diff reports.
• You'll run end-to-end investigations to profile, reproduce, and eliminate systemic bottlenecks using Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, and similar tools.
• You'll mine real-user and synthetic data to surface high-ROI opportunities for fixes and improvements in the monitoring tools.

You're probably a match if

• Full-stack fluency – comfortable diving into Node-based services and tools, data pipelines, and modern CI/CD workflows
• Data-driven mindset – balance intuition with evidence, design statistically sound experiments, and let numbers guide your decisions.
• Clear communicator – transform a flame-graph or p95 spike into an engaging narrative for engineers, PMs, execs, and other stakeholders.
• Stakeholder influence– adept at working across multiple org levels, aligning priorities, and driving action in product, platform, and leadership circles.

Nice to haves:

• Deep web-performance knowledge – expert understanding of rendering pipelines, main-thread bottlenecks, network protocols, and the latest performance APIs.
• Large-scale observability & RUM experience – hands‑on with Real User Monitoring, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Looker, Mode, or similar systems processing millions of events per minute.
• Strong TypeScript chops – proficiency crafting robust, typed code across both client and server.

About the team

Our ambition hasn’t changed since day one: make Canva the fastest graphic design platform on the planet. As a Senior Engineer in the Performance Monitoring team you’ll lead the charge—building tools, shaping culture, and guiding engineering practices so that brilliant performance is the default, not a nice-to-have. Make

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll 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.

Here's a taste of what's 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.com 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 don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.