Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Release Engineering team and help redefine how the world experiences design. Based in Sydney with options for remote work in other Australian locations, you'll be instrumental in building and scaling Canva's next-generation change orchestration system. Your responsibilities will include migrating components to the new platform, expanding its capabilities, ensuring feature parity, providing support, and collaborating with other teams. This role requires advanced Python coding skills, strong software engineering experience in a cloud ecosystem, and expertise in DevOps, containerization, and AWS. Canva offers a comprehensive benefits package including equity, inclusive parental leave, wellbeing allowances, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Have advanced coding proficiency in Python and strong Computer Science and OOP fundamentals
• Have strong experience as a Software Engineer in a cloud ecosystem
• Have a strong grasp of DevOps best practices
• Have experience with container images, Docker, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Have experience working in a modern distributed microservices environment hosted on AWS
• Have experience working with infrastructure as code and CI/CD
• Have an understanding of cloud security best practices
• Have the ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas

Responsibilities

• Build the Release Platform, Canva’s next-gen change orchestration system
• Migrate components currently released via legacy pipelines and processes to the Release Platform
• Expand the Release Platform’s capabilities to support new component types, and new functionality such as custom orchestration, custom deployers, release creation UIs, new notification types and more
• Ensure feature parity exists within the Release Platform regardless of component type or the language which the component has been written in
• Provide service desk support and on-call support for the Release Platform on a rostered basis
• Collaborate with other teams with Infra to provide a well-integrated platform offering to other engineers at Canva

Preferred Qualifications

Experience utilizing service offerings such as IAM, VPC, EC2, S3 and RDS within AWS would be desirable, but not required

Benefits

• 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