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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.