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: Defining what it means to be a production engineer at Canva. Setting the
• Pairing strategy across the team: Deciding how engineers are paired and what they should learn from
• Connecting to the product roadmap: Working with engineering leadership to ensure Production
• Building the measurement story: Defining metrics for incident severity, duration, and feature

🎯 Requirements

• Production at scale: Owned reliability in large-scale distributed systems; investigated issues and
• Technical leadership in embedded models: Led or shaped a function where engineers work across team
• Hands-on through seniority: Stayed close to the code, consulted on genuinely hard problems.
• Cross-org influence: Shaped technical decisions outside your own team through trusted technical
• JVM or systems depth: Built real things in Java, Go, Rust, C++, or comparable systems language at
• Distributed systems in practice: Navigated sharding, replication, failure modes, and consistency

🎁 Benefits

• Equity packages
• Inclusive parental leave policy supporting all parents & carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more
• Flexible leave options