Senior Software Engineer (Reliability Foundations)

Canva

Sydney

6 days ago

Sydney

6 days ago

Apply

Senior Software Engineer (Reliability Foundations)

Senior Software Engineer (Reliability Foundations) at Canva in Sydney. You will design and improve large-scale production systems, mentor engineers, and partner with teams to enhance reliability. Requires 5+ years experience with backend engineering (Java, Python, or Golang) and distributed systems.

Apply

Hybrid

Full-time

Senior

Java

Python

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, AU

Work Model

Hybrid (flagship campus in Sydney, also Melbourne, co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide; choice in where and how you work)

Experience Required

5 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior (5+ years experience)

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

JavaPythonGolangdistributed systemsmicroservice architecturesAWSobservabilitymetricslogstracing

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationmentoringproblem solvingpragmatic trade-offstechnical direction

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

SnowflakeMode AnalyticsLooker

Key Responsibilities

•Designing, building, and improving large-scale production systems that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable
•Working in different ways depending on the need—embed with teams, build shared platform capabilities, or partner on cross-cutting initiatives—to improve system quality
•Jumping into partner team codebases and shared systems to ship meaningful improvements to production services
•Owning the outcome for each piece of work—help shape the solution and drive it through to implementation
•Partnering with multiple teams to find and fix systemic issues in distributed systems—scaling limits, cascading failures, performance bottlenecks, and fault tolerance gaps
•Leading investigations into production issues, then turn what you learn into concrete improvements with the teams who own the systems
•Making sure improvements get adopted and can be sustained by the teams who own the systems long-term
•Mentoring engineers in our team and help partner teams strengthen their engineering practices
•Making pragmatic trade-offs that balance reliability, performance, and product velocity
•Helping set technical direction through design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on contributions

Senior Software EngineerReliability FoundationsCanvabackend engineeringlarge-scale systemsdistributed systemsJavaPythonGolangAWS

Key Responsibilities

•Designing, building, and improving large-scale production systems that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable

•Working in different ways depending on the need—embed with teams, build shared platform capabilities, or partner on cross-cutting initiatives—to improve system quality

•Jumping into partner team codebases and shared systems to ship meaningful improvements to production services

•Owning the outcome for each piece of work—help shape the solution and drive it through to implementation

•Partnering with multiple teams to find and fix systemic issues in distributed systems—scaling limits, cascading failures, performance bottlenecks, and fault tolerance gaps

•Leading investigations into production issues, then turn what you learn into concrete improvements with the teams who own the systems

•Making sure improvements get adopted and can be sustained by the teams who own the systems long-term

•Mentoring engineers in our team and help partner teams strengthen their engineering practices

•Making pragmatic trade-offs that balance reliability, performance, and product velocity

•Helping set technical direction through design discussions, code reviews, and hands-on contributions