Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Platform (open to remote ANZ)

Job DescriptionJoin 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:

• Applying your product/platform mindset to shape the IaC roadmap of the team.
• Actively participating in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews.
• Building and delivering solutions to improve the IaC engineering experience at Canva.
• Constructing better tooling and metrics so that we, and our platform users, understand and can respond to the health of our systems.
• Improving and updating documentation while defining best practices and guidelines.
• Mentoring and guiding other engineers, supporting their professional growth and development.

You're probably a match if

• You have at least 5 years of experience in platform engineering that is hands-on in designing, maintaining, and automating cloud infrastructure. Experience with IaC solutions such as Terraform is essential.
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.
• Advanced coding proficiency in at least one of Go (preferred), Python, or Java.
• You demonstrate self-motivation and a strong sense of ownership over complex problems and their solutions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

About the team

You'll be joining the IaC Platform team whose primary mission is to provide a best-in-class platform and user experience to empower teams to self-serve their infrastructure.

Our team oversees the infrastructure-as-code toolchain which manages the 9000+ Terraform modules used to provision everything needed to host the fastest growing design platform in the world.

Some of the areas we work on include:

• Ownership of the Terraform integration with Bazel build system used to wrangle our extensive IaC monorepo.
• Management of our fleet of IaC deployment servers
• Building internal services to host a Terraform remote state backend and module registry.
• A range of Go/Python tools for capabilities such as: credential brokering, static-analysis, workflow automation, and integration with other internal systems.

As a senior platform engineer, you'll be leading the team in rolling out cutting-edge solutions to the biggest challenges in operating at such scale, including:

• Mitigating state drift and implementing automated and continuous config reconciliation.
• Uplifting the remote agent architecture to provide a fast and seamless developer experience that is secure by design.

About the Group

The Cloud Platform group owns Canva’s cloud infrastructure, ensuring the safe, secure and reliable operation of the organization. Our mission is “to reduce the complexity burden of using the Cloud”, which we achieve through a combination of: tooling and services we provide, comprehensive developer documentation library, and a team of experts who love a good challenge.

Our platforms support engineers across the company to: provision, release, run, and operate cloud workloads. We do all this in the simplest and most secure way possible. What we create frees engineers from having to worry about what goes on under the hood, allowing them to produce their best work. We are the stewards of a seamless, scalable ecosystem that’s extensible, easy to use, and backed by uncompromising security.

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 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.