Senior Software Engineer - FinOps (remote across ANZ)

Canva; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at an innovative firm where you'll redefine cloud cost management. As a key player in the Cloud FinOps team, you'll design impactful features, drive product development, and champion a cost-aware culture. Your expertise in Golang or Python, coupled with a deep understanding of AWS services, will empower you to architect efficient solutions. Experience a collaborative environment that values continuous learning and creativity, all while enjoying flexible leave options and equity packages that align with your success. This is more than just a job; it's a chance to make a real impact.

Benefits

Equity packages

Inclusive parental leave policy

Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance

Flexible leave options

Qualifications

• Strong foundational knowledge of computer engineering principles.
• Experience with scalable, secure, and cost-conscious cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop functionality for cloud cost insights.
• Lead product development discussions and support product teams.
• Improve cloud architecture with cost optimization.

Skills

Golang

Python

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Architecture

Problem Solving

Tools

Terraform

EKS

EC2

Lambda

DynamoDB

RDS

S3

Job description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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 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 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.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Building impactful features: You’ll design and develop functionality that brings cloud cost insights closer to Canva’s teams, including automated cost anomaly detection at scale.

• Driving product development: From idea to implementation, you’ll lead discussions, scope solutions, and support product teams and Canva leaders with real-time answers to cost-related questions.

• Architecting for efficiency: Partner with engineering teams to improve their cloud architecture with cost optimisation front of mind.

• Scaling our FinOps platform: Dive into our internal FinOps data platform,fine-tune performance, ensure uptime, and explore new ways to scale.

• Championing FinOps culture: You’ll lead by example, inspiring others across Canva to adopt FinOps thinking and empowering teams to make cost-informed decisions.

You're probably a match if:

• You code in Golang or Python: You’re confident with one and keen to upskill in the other.

• You bring engineering depth: Strong foundational knowledge of computer engineering principles underpins how you solve problems.

• You know cloud inside-out: Especially AWS - you’ve worked with services like EKS, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, and S3 (or similar from another provider).

• You design with purpose: Your cloud architecture experience is scalable, secure, and cost-conscious.

• You automate everything: You’re fluent in infrastructure-as-code (we use Terraform, but we welcome experience with others).

• You own your goals: Whether working solo or with a team, you take ownership, track progress, and deliver outcomes.

• You lift others up: You mentor, guide, and improve collaboration across the team.

• You’re curious and collaborative: You love diving into unfamiliar territory, solving challenges creatively, and connecting short-term actions to long-term goals.

About the team

You'll be joining the Cloud FinOps team who look after building and promoting a cost-aware culture that empowers engineers at Canva to seamlessly maximize the value of every dollar spent in the cloud. If you have a passion for continuous learning, collaboration, problem-solving, and creating innovative technical solutions to address real business challenges, joining our team will put you in the spotlight to help Canva achieve its two-step plan.

The Cloud FinOps team is part of The Cloud Platform group whose mission is to reduce the complexity of using the Cloud. We’re responsible for building a platform that enables cloud adoption whilst minimising risk introduced to the business. Our teams work together, and with other groups, to deliver cloud tooling, processes and best practices that uplift the posture of Canva’s cloud footprint. We do this by driving operational excellence and building products that abstract the complexities of the cloud away.

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.