Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Merge Workflow team and help redefine how the world experiences design. This role focuses on developing self-service infrastructure to empower engineering teams, working across CI/CD, build systems, and cloud providers. You will collaborate with product engineering teams to ensure best practices, design developer workflows for a monorepo architecture, and participate in solution design and code reviews. The team's mission is to provide intuitive ways for Canva engineers to integrate changes safely and efficiently. Canva offers a range of benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• 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 advanced coding proficiency in Python/ Java/ GoLang and strong Object Oriented Programming fundamentals
• You have experience building internal tooling for CI/CD, infrastructure, or developer efficiency/productivity
• You have a good understanding of the DevOps ecosystem and how to improve developer efficiency
• You have experience working in a modern distributed microservices environment
• You have the ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills - both technical and plain language
• You thrive on teamwork, love being a team player, and enjoy mixing it up with folks from all walks of work life!
• You have a passion for creating and enjoy using your imagination to develop innovative engineering solutions

Responsibilities

• Developing self-service infrastructure from the ground up to empower our engineering teams to work more efficiently
• Working across CI/CD, build systems, test frameworks, cloud providers and other developer-related domains as necessary to ensure Canva’s engineering teams continue to scale with the demands of the product suite
• Working with product engineering teams to ensure build best practices and tools are rolled out in every service across the whole organization
• Designing, building and optimising developer workflows to build, test and deploy a monorepo architecture
• Participating in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews
• Working to improve/maintain internal developer experience platforms that empower engineers to work efficiently

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