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Principal Production EngineerCanva · Brisbane, QLD, au
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Principal Production Engineer

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🗓️ Posted 2026-09-06 Brisbane, QLD, au Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$14,166–A$20,833/mo

About the Company

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

About the Role

The Production Engineering team sits at the intersection of software engineering and the hardest reliability problems in Canva's infrastructure. At 240M MAUs, the hardest problems aren't on any product roadmap. Production Engineering exists to find them first and fix them properly. Writing software. Changing how production behaves. When it works, every team ships with more confidence and Canva gets faster and more resilient for the people who use it every day.

Responsibilities

  • ● Defining the engagement model: How Production Engineering pairs with product and infrastructure teams, how engagements are scoped, and what handoff actually looks like.
  • ● Leading the hardest engagements: Taking personal ownership of the most technically complex areas, sharding, multi-region architecture, JVM performance at scale, while the team builds depth in adjacent domains.
  • ● Setting the technical bar: What it means to be a production engineer at Canva.
  • ● Pairing strategy across the team: Deciding how staff and mid-level engineers are paired and what they should be learning from each engagement.
  • ● Growing production engineering capability across the org, not just within the team.
  • ● Connecting to the product roadmap: Working with engineering leadership across Canva to ensure Production Engineering is upstream of problems, not downstream.
  • ● Influencing how product teams think about production readiness before they ship.
  • ● Building the measurement story: Incident severity and duration trending down.
  • ● Feature launches going to production cleanly.

Requirements

  • ● Experience Production at scale: You've owned reliability in large-scale distributed systems.
  • ● Technical leadership in embedded models: You've led or helped shape a function where engineers work across team boundaries rather than within a single one.