Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where And How You Can Work

Collingwood is home to our Melbourne campus - a vibrant, creative hub for connection and impactful work. While Sydney is home to our HQ, Melbourne brings its own unique vibe, with local artwork, lush greenery, and thoughtfully designed spaces to help you collaborate, focus, and feel part of a welcoming community.

This role is based in Melbourne, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remote, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most.

What You’d Be Doing In This Role

The Data Sync team owns the data-movement layer of Canva's platform. Every first-party event a user generates and every third-party signal that flows in from external partners runs through pipelines this team builds. Every data egress to downstream platforms runs through here too. CDC, snapshots,



streaming, batch. The whole movement layer. The volume is real and growing fast.

The strategic bet is moving from "land then transform" to streaming-native, AI-aware data movement. Data movement is the layer every product, ML, and analytics team builds on, and the speed at which data moves determines what those teams can ship. The team launched a Flink-based streaming pattern earlier this year together with a lakehouse architecture on S3 with Iceberg tables. The transformation happens in flight, faster, cheaper, closer to real time. Early returns are significant, with several million dollars a year in projected savings.

What the team needs you to own is the technical vision for streaming-native data movement. The outcome is defined. The technical path is open. You'll decide what consolidates and what stays, what the migration sequence looks like, and what current patterns AI agents need now that the downstream consumer is increasingly an agent rather than a dashboard. The architectural calls made here become how Canva moves data for years.

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📌 Staff Software Engineer - Data Sync Team (New South Wales)
🏢 Canva
📍 New South Wales