Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Core Data team and help redefine how the world experiences design. You will design, implement, and maintain database infrastructure automation, tooling, and solutions, focusing on scalability, high-availability, and security. Analyze fleet-wide performance, reliability, and efficiency of Canva’s database infrastructure and implement improvements. Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for databases, providing expertise to engineering teams. Support and debug production database issues across services, and provide on-call support. Plan the growth and manage the capacity of Canva’s database infrastructure. Participate in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews. Canva offers flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits.

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 Golang (preferred)/Python/ Java, and strong Object Oriented Programming fundamentals
• You have experience running one or more database technologies (MySQL/MariaDB preferred) in large-scale production environments
• You have experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)

Responsibilities

• You will design, implement and maintain database infrastructure automation, tooling and solutions with scalability, high-availability, and security in mind
• You will analyze fleet wide performance, reliability and efficiency of Canva’s database infrastructure and roll out best practices and improvements
• You will act as an SME for databases at Canva and provide expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations)
• You will support and debug production issues with databases across services
• You will provide on-call support as part of a rotation with the team
• You will plan the growth and manage the capacity of Canva’s database infrastructure
• You will participate in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with AWS (preferred), GCP or Azure
• Experience working with Kubernetes (preferred) or similar container orchestration tools
• A solid understanding of security & networking best practices in cloud environments
• Experience working with Bazel (preferred) or similar large-scale build tools

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