Jobs at Canva

Design, build, and improve Canva’s observability platforms, data pipelines, and tooling. Lead technical decisions, optimize metrics and continuous profiling systems, improve monitoring and visualization experiences, and promote observability best practices across engineering. The role involves developing SDKs, operating highly reliable distributed systems, and collaborating cross-functionally to support scalable, high-throughput infrastructure and production reliability.

Owns end-to-end developer tooling and infrastructure solutions for large-scale engineering teams. Builds self-service platforms, CLIs, automation, CI/CD systems, build and test infrastructure, release tooling, monitoring, and developer workflows for Python and Java engineers. Partners with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams, uses telemetry to prioritize improvements, and contributes through documentation, technical talks, and mentorship.

Build Android development tooling, device orchestration, CLI tools, mobile test automation frameworks, and CI/CD quality gates. Collaborate with infrastructure and developer experience teams to unify mobile workflows, improve testing practices, establish triage and monitoring systems, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on mobile platform reliability, scalable developer experience, synthetic and integration testing, and proactive regression detection across Android development.

Build and own high-performance portable libraries in Rust or C++ that run across iOS, Android, and web. Design native-feeling APIs, safety models, and foreign-function interfaces; collaborate with Staff engineers and frontend teams; provide hands-on technical leadership; and establish cross-platform mobile architecture patterns. The role requires deep native mobile expertise, systems programming, technical communication, and practical AI fluency.

Build scalable backend frameworks, shared services, APIs, and internal platforms for Canva’s Product Platform. Design maintainable distributed systems, collaborate with product teams, improve observability and deployment workflows, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong Java or JVM expertise, cloud experience, API and modular architecture knowledge, and the ability to reason about scalability and complexity.

Provide technical leadership for Canva’s experimentation platform, designing reliable backend and distributed systems for experiment setup, user targeting, variants, measurement, guardrails, and progressive rollouts. Lead ambiguous technical initiatives, drive adoption across engineering teams, and collaborate with senior technical and data science leaders. Help evolve automated experimentation analysis and alerting using data systems, experimentation principles, and AI-enabled capabilities.

Own reliability for Canva’s highest-risk technical domains by writing production software for large-scale distributed systems. Responsibilities include improving sharding, resource utilization, resilience, observability, performance, and incident outcomes; debugging unfamiliar codebases; collaborating with product and infrastructure teams; mentoring engineers; and contributing shared platform capabilities. The role requires deep systems, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, distributed-systems, and production incident-response expertise.

Principal Production Engineer responsible for defining Canva’s production engineering practice, leading complex reliability engagements, and setting technical standards across the organization. The role involves improving large-scale distributed systems, shaping engagement and measurement models, influencing product roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and addressing challenges involving sharding, multi-region architecture, JVM performance, Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, observability, and incident response.

Leads Canva’s Core Production Engineering team, managing software engineers who build reliable, scalable services and solve complex cross-team production challenges. Sets team direction, priorities, and delivery goals; coaches engineers; drives adoption of engineering practices; and helps turn targeted solutions into reusable capabilities. The role requires strong systems, networking, cloud, reliability, architecture, and software engineering knowledge, with responsibility for shaping an evolving technical function.

Lead Canva’s Embedded Production Engineering team, managing senior engineers who solve critical reliability, scalability, observability, data protection, and software safety challenges. Define the team’s operating model, prioritize high-impact engagements, influence engineering leaders across teams, establish reusable engineering standards, and develop senior technical leaders. The role requires strong software engineering, systems, cloud, reliability, and cross-organizational leadership experience.

Build accessible interactions for Canva’s Editor, including focus management, keyboard navigation, live regions, and ARIA semantics. Use VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS to develop and debug accessibility behavior. Partner with engineers and designers, review implementations, identify systemic accessibility gaps, and create architectural solutions for complex editor features and assistive technology interactions.

Build, evaluate, and ship machine-learning ranking and relevance systems for private, team, and brand content search. Improve relevance, recall, result understanding, search recovery, and exact-title matching. Contribute to Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, vector search, indexing, annotation, and agent-driven search. Investigate production regressions, run experiments, measure search-quality impact, own scoped projects end to end, and communicate technical trade-offs across technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Lead Canva’s Core IT function by setting strategy, building a global technology roadmap, developing high-performing teams, and improving workforce technology experiences. Oversee onboarding, device and access management, network infrastructure, campus technology, AI, and automation. Establish data-driven service measurement, represent IT with executive stakeholders, and ensure high-priority initiatives remain aligned and on track.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Canva’s native mobile infrastructure, including Bazel build rules, iOS and Android build systems, React Native bundling and codegen, CI/CD, release tooling, and monorepo migration. Lead cross-team infrastructure delivery, establish reliability and quality standards, develop build and release monitoring, align stakeholders, and mentor engineers supporting Canva’s mobile platform.

Own end-to-end production of locally relevant graphics, illustrations, and motion content. Provide creative direction, feedback, and work allocation; develop AI-assisted workflows; use data and market insights to identify content opportunities; translate strategy into production plans; ensure asset quality, metadata, and discoverability; collaborate with regional and operational teams; and share motion and illustration expertise.

Lead the technical direction and implementation of Canva’s hybrid mobile platform across React Native, iOS, Android, and web. Establish shared architecture, native boundaries, performance, reliability, and observability foundations; ship the platform into production; guide Staff and Senior engineers through a large-scale migration; and drive adoption across product teams and Canva’s engineering organization. The role combines principal-level technical leadership, hands-on coding, cross-platform architecture, and organization-wide influence.

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.

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.

Create high-volume, short-form AI-generated videos from creative briefs, managing prompting, tool selection, iteration, visual direction, and end-to-end production. Build reusable prompt workflows, maintain quality and brand standards, identify safety and copyright risks, and provide structured feedback on AI video tools and model outputs. Stay current with emerging AI video technologies and contribute techniques to Canva’s scalable content production workflows.

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.