Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Media Platform team as a backend engineer and contribute to building and maintaining scalable, distributed systems that handle billions of pieces of content. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance content storage performance, reliability, and scalability. This role involves supporting content replication, redundancy, and disaster recovery processes, as well as developing internal tools and platforms. The ideal candidate possesses hands-on experience with Java backend systems and a passion for building high-performance, scalable solutions. Canva offers a range of benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Have hands-on experience developing and maintaining backend systems using Java
• Be passionate about building high-performance, scalable systems
• Enjoy debugging tough problems across distributed systems and love solving them collaboratively
• Be comfortable working with infrastructure and understand concepts like storage layers, caching, and CDN
• Care about performance, code quality, testing and documentation
• Be a proactive communicator who enjoys working in a collaborative environment

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable, distributed backend systems that store and deliver billions of pieces of content
• Work with cross-functional teams to improve content storage performance, reliability and scalability
• Support content replication, redundancy and disaster recovery processes
• Drive improvements in observability and alerting for mission-critical services
• Develop internal tools and platforms that empower other engineering teams
• Participate in on-call rotations and help improve incident response processes

Benefits

• Equity packages
• 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 support you personally