Principal Production Engineer

📋 Description

• Defining the engagement model: How Production Engineering pairs with product and infrastructure
• Leading the hardest engagements: Taking personal ownership of the most technically complex areas
• Setting the technical bar: What it means to be a production engineer at Canva.
• Pairing strategy across the team: Deciding how staff and mid-level engineers are paired and what
• Connecting to the product roadmap: Working with engineering leadership across Canva to ensure
• Building the measurement story: Incident severity and duration trending down. Feature launches

🎯 Requirements

• Experience: Production at scale: You've owned reliability in large-scale distributed systems.
• Technical leadership in embedded models: You've led or helped shape a function where engineers work
• Hands-on through seniority: You've stayed close to the code.
• Cross-org influence: You've shaped how teams outside your own make technical decisions because your
• JVM or systems depth: You've built real things in Java, Go, Rust, C++, or a comparable systems
• Distributed systems in practice: You've navigated sharding, replication, failure modes, and

🎁 Benefits

• Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports