Senior Software Engineer - Platform Workflows (Python, Golang)

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

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.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Deeply understand the needs and workflows of platform engineers and other consumers of the infrastructure platform at Canva

• Write tools services configuration and whatever else is required to ensure that platform engineers have a low friction experience shipping new services and capabilities

• Consult with internal users and other platform teams to bring clarity and alignment

• Take on ownership of our existing configuration frameworks and other infrastructure abstraction tools that help platform engineers expose new platform capabilities to users

• Participate in planning rituals at the team and group level to ensure that the needs of platform engineers and infrastructure consumers are prioritised

• Work alongside product managers to bring a product mindset to platform engineering at Canva

You're probably a match if

• You have strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency multithreading data structures architecture and various design patterns

• You have strong experience with the Python and Go programming languages

• You have experience with Kubernetes ideally including Custom Resource Definitions

• You have experience with AWS (and as a plus GCP) cloud environments

• Prior work in a platform engineering capacity is desired but not required

• You have experience with AI tooling for use with software engineering such as Copilot or Claude Code

• You have excellent communication and stakeholder engagement

• You may benefit from prior experience as a consultant business analyst or developer advocate

About the team

This role is part of the Platform Workflows team inside the Developer Workflows subgroup. We empower platform engineers to deliver value quickly safely and confidently. Through developer advocacy and a product mindset we build workflows that accelerate platform development ensuring that the platform can rapidly evolve to meet the needs of all engineers. We compose solutions from a broad set of platform capabilities and request new features from platform capability teams where needed. Our end-to-end workflows target both other platform engineers and broader users of our infrastructure platform.

This role is a unique blend of developer advocacy product management and platform engineering. While all team members are software engineers and continue to write code day-to-day our impact is also realised by our ability to consult with users understand their needs and ensure that downstream platform teams are aware of these requirements and are shaping their roadmaps accordingly. We deliver value to the business by ensuring that platform engineers have all the tools and systems at their disposal to rapidly iterate on the platform and deliver new capabilities in response to changing business needs. This role requires a level of customer empathy and consulting ability not usually seen in typical software engineering roles.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• 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 & more

• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. We’re evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience - you’ll tackle interactive real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do. In some interviews you may also be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to expect. 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.