Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Data Platform Group and contribute to building a world-class data platform. You will design and implement a declarative infrastructure management framework for Canva’s data platform (Snowflake and AWS), build automated governance, and improve data access controls. The role involves enhancing development practices, contributing to team growth, and proactively identifying opportunities to improve data platform capabilities. Canva offers a flexible work environment with various benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• You have five-plus (3-5+) 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

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience in data processing using Analytical SQL

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