Jobs at Canva

Own and evolve core API/platform infrastructure that connects backend services. Design and build reliable, high-performance communication systems, lead a major migration, expand language/framework support, ensure reliability and correctness, and mentor engineers while driving cross-team technical direction.

Design, build and own authorization and access control systems (SpiceDB-backed). Partner with Security and product teams to drive adoption, design patterns and tooling, ensure high availability at scale, and mentor engineers on system design and IAM best practices.

Design and build portable, production-grade libraries in Rust/C++ that run across iOS, Android, and web. Lead technical direction as a hands-on Staff engineer, own APIs/FFI/ABI ergonomics, and communicate designs to frontend consumers while ensuring cross-platform performance and safety.

Design and implement accessible interactions in a large frontend Editor: focus management, keyboard navigation, ARIA, live regions. Use screen readers daily, collaborate across teams, review PRs/designs, identify systemic accessibility gaps, and build scalable architectural solutions.

Lead design and implementation of a frontend telemetry SDK, instrument browser internals and AI-driven experiences, ship production-quality code, drive adoption across product teams, and collaborate with cross-functional peers to surface performance, reliability, and analytics data.

Lead design and implementation of a large-scale hybrid mobile platform (React/React Native/Bazel) to ship native-feeling experiences across iOS, Android, and web. Own architecture, ship production code quickly, mentor senior engineers, partner with product teams, and ensure performance, observability, and cross-platform reuse at scale.

Provide strategic, commercial employment law advice across APAC; handle day-to-day employee and contingent workforce matters, performance, exits, investigations, disputes and regulatory inquiries; partner with People, Rewards and Finance; develop scalable employment frameworks and policies; deliver training; manage external counsel on complex, cross-border matters.

Advise product and engineering teams on privacy, data protection, IP, AI, online safety, marketing, accessibility, platform, competition and consumer laws. Develop and operationalize AI policies, draft legal playbooks, enable scalable legal review, coordinate privacy/security incident response, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while staying current on global AI and privacy regulations.

Lead and define Production Engineering practice to improve reliability at scale. Own and execute the most complex reliability engagements, set technical standards, mentor engineers, shape engagement models with product teams, build measurement and observability, and influence cross-org production readiness and incident reduction.

Embedded senior software engineer working on production reliability for large-scale distributed systems. Own high-risk domains, write production code to improve reliability, performance, and resilience, collaborate with product teams, instrument systems, seed platform capabilities, and reduce incidents while improving recovery and customer experience.

Lead development of a portable React component library that renders on web and React Native, abstract cross-platform complexity, mentor engineers, set standards for building and distributing portable components, and drive strategic frontend and design system direction including AI-enabled workflows.

Lead technical direction for Canva's mobile tooling, test automation, and CI/CD quality gating as part of a major migration to a native-grade cross-platform mobile platform. Architect simulator/emulator/device orchestration, design test frameworks, consolidate fragmented workflows, publish standards, build company-wide quality signals, and mentor engineers while delivering cross-team infrastructure projects at scale.

Design, build, and ship production ML systems for content and element generation. Own the full ML lifecycle from data pipelines and training to deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Run experiments, diagnose model and data issues, and collaborate with research, content, and product teams to scale reliable systems impacting millions of users.

Provide legal counsel on content safety, product and privacy for generative AI and digital products. Advise on online safety, privacy, IP and AI regulation; draft playbooks; support product launches, incident response, regulatory inquiries and cross-functional governance; monitor global regulation and drive compliance.

Lead engineering teams to develop and manage Canva's Native Video Engine, focusing on video rendering, performance, and team growth.

Design, build, and maintain scalable analytic data models and warehouse infrastructure for the User Voice org. Use SQL and Python to automate ETL/transformations, tune and operate tools (dbt, Fivetran, Snowflake/Redshift), implement observability/monitoring, enforce data governance, and partner with product, data scientists, and engineers to deliver reliable metrics and insights.

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.