Senior Software Engineer, Python

Summary

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design at Canva, where you'll be working on building a world-class data platform and empowering Canvanauts with efficient & effective data capabilities.

Requirements

• You have five-plus (5-8+) years of commercial experience developing complex applications in Python
• Architecture and design experience for modern MPP cloud-based data platform and warehouse, Snowflake and AWS preferred
• Implementing data platform infrastructure resource management framework using Infrastructure as Code declaratively (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience improving testing frameworks and strategies, e.g. unit testing and integration testing
• Prior experience building, uplifting data governance capabilities, incl.: managing lineage, classification, treatment, access control, sovereignty, and etc
• You have extensive experience in developing clean, readable, and maintainable code; The libraries and tools developed by the team are used by hundreds of developers at Canva so they need to be easily understandable
• You are comfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of a declarative infrastructure management framework for Canva’s data platform (Snowflake and AWS) to enable self-service data pipeline and analytics development by Canva’s data community
• Build out automated governance for data platform across all data workloads
• Uplift & iterate data access controls framework towards finer grain controls and policy based access controls
• Improve development practices through improvement to testing strategies and frameworks
• Contribute towards the growth of data platform teams, incl. hiring, onboarding, training of the fellow engineer
• Contribute towards up/cross skill training on usage of data platform in Canva’s data community
• Uplift engineering practices, especially on engineering, architecture and documentation
• Engage data community to improve data platform capabilities and tooling
• Proactively search and identify opportunities, shape and lead data platform initiatives to achieve material business value

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