Staff Production Engineer

📋 Description

• Owning an engagement area: Taking long-term accountability for one of Canva's highest-risk
• Writing production software: The work is code, not process. Instrumenting, refactoring, rebuilding
• Collaboration: Opportunity to pair, mentor and learn from fellow production engineers
• Customer First: Striving for fewer incidents, faster recovery, lower severity, latency that bends
• Platform contributions: Where you see a pattern that needs a shared capability, you bring it back
• Compounding at the system layer: One engineer who truly understands a system can change how every

🎯 Requirements

• Production at scale: Owned reliability work within large-scale distributed systems. When things
• Embedded delivery: Previously worked as an engineer embedded in or partnering closely with a
• JVM or systems depth: You've built real things in Java, Go, Rust, C++, or a comparable systems
• Distributed systems in practice: Navigated sharding, replication, failure modes, consistency
• Debugging large codebases: Ability to parachute into an unfamiliar codebase, orient quickly, find
• Influence without authority: Proven to have made things better in systems through wisdom and trust.

🎁 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