Staff Software Engineer - Developer Environment
Full-time
Recruitment type: Permanent
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.
Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. However, you have a choice in where and how you work. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
What you'd be doing in this role
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
Setting Technical Direction:
Identifying, scoping, and solving complex platform problems across multiple teams — including ones not yet fully defined
Driving initiatives from design doc through adoption across the organisation
Defining the tools, standards, and practices that become the engineering standard at Canva
Building Platforms That Scale:
Architecting high-leverage infrastructure that eliminates systemic friction for engineers
Defining and delivering self-service platforms and CLIs that reduce dependency on platform teams
Setting the observability standard for the platform — monitoring, alerting,



and health visibility that works without being asked
Leading, Collaborating, and Growing the Team:
Partnering with engineering teams to understand pain points and turn them into technical direction
Advocating for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders
Mentoring engineers through code review and design feedback
Creating the conditions for your team to move fast independently — empowering engineers to make decisions and own outcomes
Participating in on-call rotation for critical platform services
You're probably a match if
You have a Staff-level background in Platform Engineering, with solid programming experience in Python and Go; experience with Java or TypeScript is a plus
You have a track record of leading complex, cross-team platform initiatives end-to-end — not just building and operating systems, but setting the direction others build on
You have experience supporting large engineering organisations (1,000+ engineers)
You have solid experience with AWS (we use AWS)
You have Kubernetes experience at workload depth — autoscaling, pod lifecycle, scheduling, and configuration within managed clusters
You have experience with CI/CD Pipelines: led and shaped the evolution of complex pipelines at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildkite, or similar)
You have experience with Bazel, Gradle, or similar monorepo build tools (Bazel experience highly valued)
You have Observability experience: implemented comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting in production environments
You have Infrastructure
#J-*****-Ljbffr

📌 Staff Software Engineer - Developer Environment (Melbourne)
🏢 Canva
📍 Melbourne