Staff Software Engineer - Video - Content and Discovery

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain high-performance C++ services and tools powering Canva's video platform.
• Design distributed systems to ingest, process, store, and deliver multimedia content worldwide.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to enable video editing and playback.
• Optimize multimedia processing pipelines for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
• Build new platform capabilities for Canva's growing video and multimedia ecosystem.
• Drive engineering excellence via testing, code reviews, and operational best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience building scalable, secure, and performant backend systems using C++.
• CS fundamentals: concurrency, multithreading, memory management, and data structures.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems and scalable backend architectures.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and services in production.
• Diagnosing, debugging, and resolving complex performance and reliability issues.
• Experience with modern codecs (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AV1) and FFmpeg/GStreamer.

🎁 Benefits

• Equity packages to share Canva's success
• Inclusive parental leave for all parents and carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing and setup
• Flexible leave options to recharge and support you