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Staff Software Engineer - Video - Content and Discovery Canva · Sydney, au
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Staff Software Engineer - Video - Content and Discovery

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🗓️ Posted 2026-09-09 Sydney, au Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$14,000–A$20,000/mo

About the Company

Empower the world to design. We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we've had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We're leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva - which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world's most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world. Software Development Specialties: Design, Graphic Design, Web app, Software engineering, Startup, Technology, Innovation, Publishing, product design

Responsibilities

  • ● You have strong commercial experience building highly scalable, secure, and performant backend systems using C++ .
  • ● You're deeply grounded in computer science and software engineering fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading, memory management, data structures, architecture, and design patterns.
  • ● You have experience designing and operating distributed systems and scalable backend architectures.
  • ● You have hands-on experience working with cloud platforms and services in production environments.
  • ● You are highly skilled at diagnosing, debugging, and resolving complex performance and reliability issues.
  • ● You have excellent communication and collaboration skills and enjoy working across engineering, product, and design teams.
  • ● You are passionate about audio and video technologies and excited by the challenge of processing multimedia content at a massive scale.
  • ● You have experience with modern video codecs such as H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9, or AV1.
  • ● You have deep experience with multimedia frameworks and libraries such as FFmpeg and/or GStreamer, including source-level debugging, architecture analysis, performance profiling, and custom patch development.
  • ● You have built large-scale video ingestion, storage, transcoding, processing, and delivery systems.
  • ● You have a strong understanding of multimedia containers and formats such as MP4 and WebM. Nice to have:
  • ● Contributions to FFmpeg, GStreamer, or other open-source multimedia projects.
  • ● Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
  • ● Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers
  • ● An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup and more
  • ● Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge, and support 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.