Senior Backend Engineer - Feature Control

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.

As a backend engineer in the Content Review group you'll play a key role in ensuring Canva’s content remains high-quality safe and aligned with our guidelines at scale. You’ll work across the end-to-end experience of our review platforms enabling AI-assisted review workflows.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Building and evolving backend systems that power feature flagging and progressive delivery at Canva.

• Designing safe rollout patterns targeting logic and observability integrations to ensure confidence in launches.

• Collaborating with platform and product teams to embed safety and control into their development workflows.

• Maintaining and improving the performance reliability and scalability of the flag infrastructure.

• Participating in code reviews technical design discussions and cross-team architecture planning.

• Sharing knowledge and elevating engineering craft through mentorship and best practices

You're probably a match if

• An experienced backend engineer ideally with a background in building platforms internal tools or safety-critical systems.

• Skilled in designing and scaling APIs distributed systems or configuration-based infrastructure.

• Comfortable managing infrastructure at scale using container orchestration platforms.

• Familiar with (or keen to learn) concepts like progressive delivery flag targeting and rollout metrics.

• Thriving in cross-functional teams and enjoy collaborating with product data and infra partners.

• Committed to writing clean maintainable and well-tested code while advocating for engineering excellence.

• Thoughtful about safety observability and the long-term health of systems.

• Motivated by solving complex technical challenges and influencing the product roadmap.

• Excited about building tools that empower others to ship better faster and safer.

About the team

You’ll join the Feature Control team within the Product Insights Enablement (PIE) group. We empower teams across Canva to ship new features safely and progressively — with robust flagging rollout and control systems. Our infrastructure supports everything from small A/B tests to global rollouts including high-stakes launches like major redesigns and ML models. We partner closely with engineering data and product to enable safe data-informed delivery at scale.

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer you’ll be a key technical contributor to the evolution of Canva’s rollout platform. You’ll design and build systems that help product teams control observe and measure how features are released. This includes infrastructure for flag targeting safety checks integrations with observability tools and support for complex rollout strategies. Your work will directly shape how every team at Canva ships product — and how we reduce risk while moving fast.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.