Staff Video Platform Engineer - Equity & Flexible Hybrid

Nearheal Pty Ltd (trading as Nearheal); Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

Parental leave

Wellness allowance

Flexible leave

Job summary

Canva is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Video Content & Discovery platform in Sydney. You will scale backend services, drive video ingestion, transcoding, and delivery at global scale, collaborating with product and design teams to create outstanding video experiences.

You will work in a hybrid setup, contributing to architecture, performance tuning, and reliability while exploring new media formats and codecs across the Canva ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building scalable, secure backends in C++.
• Experience designing distributed systems and cloud deployments.
• Depth in multimedia processing and codecs (H.264/HEVC/AV1).
• Proficiency with FFmpeg or GStreamer for debugging.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-performance C++ services powering Canva's video processing platform.
• Design distributed systems for ingesting, processing, storing and delivering multimedia content at scale.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to enable video editing and playback experiences.
• Optimize pipelines for reliability, performance, and cost.
• Build platform capabilities for the growing video ecosystem.
• Drive testing, reviews, and operational best practices; troubleshoot production challenges.

Skills

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Multithreading

Debugging

Video/audio tech

Codecs (H.264/HEVC/AV1)

FFmpeg/GStreamer

Tools

FFmpeg

GStreamer

Job description

Canva is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Video Content & Discovery platform in Sydney. You will scale backend services, drive video ingestion, transcoding, and delivery at global scale, collaborating with product and design teams to create outstanding video experiences.

You will work in a hybrid setup, contributing to architecture, performance tuning, and reliability while exploring new media formats and codecs across the Canva ecosystem.