Jobs at Canva

The Staff Data Scientist will define and execute the data strategy for CJKI markets, acting as a strategic partner, guiding experimentation, and building scalable data products while mentoring others.

Lead and coach a 3–6 engineer team building native Android features inside a React Native app. Drive technical decisions on native modules, lifecycle, memory, and performance, partner across product and design, and own end-to-end delivery of cross-team initiatives.

Provide legal advice on online content safety, platform and privacy law for product and engineering teams; support generative AI product launches; draft policies and playbooks; manage regulatory monitoring, incident response and government enquiries; collaborate with policy, trust & safety, IP, security and engineering; drive compliance projects and training across the company.

Design and implement scalable shared backend frameworks, services, and developer APIs. Collaborate with product teams to improve architecture, observability, deployment pipelines, and developer workflows. Mentor engineers and contribute to platform-wide conventions, tooling, and reliability.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build and operate Kubernetes infrastructure, automate lifecycle management, and improve reliability across the compute stack for Canva's services.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team developing AI-powered help platform capabilities, focusing on scalable backend systems and engineering quality while driving collaboration across functional teams.

Own high-risk technical domains and write production software to improve reliability, efficiency, and resilience at scale. Embed with product teams, instrument systems, reduce incidents, contribute reusable platform pieces, mentor peers, and drive measurable reliability outcomes.

Own and build portable libraries in system languages (Rust/C/C++) that run across iOS, Android, and web. Lead technical direction as a hands‑on Staff engineer, design native-feeling APIs and FFI/ABI boundaries, communicate across teams, and deliver production-grade, high-performance cross-platform mobile foundations.

The Head of Design Research will lead and develop the design research team, craft research strategies integrating AI, and enhance product research capabilities.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Canva AI, you'll drive backend architecture, implement critical code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with teams to enhance the platform's scalability and integration capabilities.

Lead the delivery of sharing and permissions features, propose innovative solutions, mentor engineers, and design intricate systems while ensuring performance and reliability in SaaS products.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop scalable backend services, improve performance, and lead collaboration for impactful product features, while mentoring team members.

The role involves leading data strategy for Productivity, coaching teams, driving experimentation, and connecting data to product goals in an AI context.

As the Head of Product for Print, you will lead product strategy and execution across Canva's Print business, managing product development, scaling operations, and ensuring high-quality execution in a complex environment.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll design and implement backend features, maintain services, write clean code, and collaborate with teams to create impactful user experiences.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll research, develop, and deploy automated solutions for content moderation at Canva, collaborating with cross-functional teams and fostering a healthy code review culture.

Create high-quality, production-ready print designs and scalable Canva templates. Prepare print-ready files (bleed, trim, CMYK, resolution), conduct pre-flight checks, and manage packaging/export. Design modular, reusable assets, contribute to print design systems, integrate AI tools for ideation and variation, collaborate across design, product, and production teams, and publish playbooks and workflows to ensure quality, discoverability, and compliance.

Lead Canva's Production Engineering practice: define engagement models, lead the hardest reliability engagements (sharding, multi-region, JVM performance), set technical standards, mentor engineers, build observability and measurement, and influence product teams to improve production readiness and reduce incidents.

Lead the strategy and engineering for Canva's internal technology platforms, focusing on Finance and People systems while ensuring security and scalability.

The role focuses on developing and owning a telemetry SDK for frontend performance and reliability at Canva, including AI-driven experiences. Key responsibilities include building easy-to-use instrumentation, understanding browser internals, and influencing cross-team adoption of the SDK.