Software Engineer - Developer Platform - Remote across ANZ

Canva; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where your engineering expertise will help redefine the developer experience. As part of a dynamic team, you will work on improving remote developer environments, providing technical leadership, and fostering collaboration among engineers. This role is perfect for someone passionate about systems architecture and engineering excellence. You'll enjoy a culture that values creativity and innovation while working towards ambitious goals. Experience a vibrant workplace that offers flexibility, equity packages, and a supportive environment to thrive both personally and professionally.

Benefits

Equity packages

Inclusive parental leave policy

Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance

Flexible leave options

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and data structures.
• Deep understanding of Linux OS internals and AWS infrastructure.
• Experience with containerization and building internal tooling.

Responsibilities

• Improve Canva’s remote developer environments for engineers.
• Provide technical leadership and optimize developer productivity.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance the local development experience.

Skills

Computer Engineering/Science fundamentals

Concurrency and multithreading

Data structures

Linux OS internals

AWS infrastructure

Containerization

Terraform

GitOps principles

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Bazel

AWS

Terraform

Job description

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, 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. This role is focused on:

• Assisting in improving Canva’s remote developer environments for engineers.
• Building and delivering solutions to improve the local developer experience at Canva.
• Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive pragmatic solutions and dive into impactful design decisions.
• Brainstorming, researching, and prototyping to optimize our remote developer environment platform, improve our operational effectiveness, and increase developer productivity.
• Being proactive in improving the tracing user experience and advocating for best practices.
• Participating in team ceremonies, knowledge sharing, and brainstorming sessions.
• Finding innovative new ways to leverage remote developer environments to make engineers happier and more productive.

You're probably a match if

• You have strong Computer Engineering/Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns.
• You have a willingness to learn modern development tools such as Bazel.
• You have a deep understanding of the Linux OS internals.
• You have deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure.
• You have experience with containerization.
• You have experience building internal tooling for infrastructure or developer efficiency/productivity.
• Terraform and GitOps principles for automation and deployment are highly valued.
• You have demonstrated self-motivation and ownership over complex problems and their solutions with a strong sense of accountability.
• You’re passionate about engineering excellence, systems architecture, and meeting non-functional requirements.
• You have a proven ability to foster team collaboration, driving collective success through shared challenges and goals.

About the Group

The Developer Platform Group owns the coding life cycle at Canva – from ideas through to production. Our mission is to forge a delightful ecosystem for engineers at Canva, amplifying their craft and enabling them to ship fast and correct. At scale.

You'll be joining the Developer Environment team, whose mission is to uplift the local development experience for our engineers. You'll collaborate with other engineers to identify pain points and work with the team to address them.

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Environment team, you'll work with Developer Platform Product Managers and leadership to align on strategic priorities, the roadmap, and initiatives within the team.

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 offer a range of benefits to set you up for success in and outside of work:

• 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, and more.
• Flexible leave options that empower you to take time to recharge and support 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.