Jobs at Canva

Design and implement end-to-end infrastructure projects, build developer-facing tools and automation (self-service platforms, CLIs, CI/CD), improve observability, collaborate with engineering teams, mentor juniors, and participate in on-call rotation for critical platform services.

Design, build and improve observability platforms, pipelines, and tooling. Provide technical leadership, prototype and optimise metrics and continuous profiling systems, improve querying/visualisation UX, evangelise observability best practices, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure reliable, scalable monitoring and insights for Canva engineers.

Lead development of lightweight SDKs, dashboards, and CI checks to monitor web performance (LCP, INP, CLS). Extend OpenTelemetry pipelines ingesting large-scale RUM data, build low-overhead metric collection libraries and no-merge-if-slower checks, and investigate performance regressions using DevTools and Lighthouse to drive high-ROI improvements.

Design, build, and ship production ML systems for content and template generation. Own full ML lifecycle including data pipelines, training, deployment, monitoring, experimentation, and cross-functional collaboration to scale element and template generation.

Lead and develop an IAM systems engineering team to deliver secure, scalable identity services. Own operational excellence, review technical designs, drive strategic IAM programs, and use metrics to prioritize improvements across IT, Security and Infra.

Lead commercial strategy and sourcing across marketing and business services categories. Execute negotiations, build category strategies, manage contract pipelines and renewals, drive supplier consolidation and cost optimisation, partner with Legal/Finance/Risk, embed with stakeholders, and develop scalable sourcing processes and playbooks.

Lead end-to-end production and operations for Canva's flagship internal events (Season Openers, Company Goal Celebrations, Droptober). Own briefs, vendors, budgets, timelines and on-the-ground delivery while building scalable systems, playbooks and cross‑regional alignment. Act as both hands-on production lead and operational backbone, partnering with global Vibe leads and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistent, locally relevant experiences.

Design short-form video templates and motion graphics for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts that users can customize. Translate cultural and platform trends into scalable, editable assets, build storytelling sequences, hooks, and transitions, collaborate with product and video teams, and contribute to experimentation with motion, editing, and AI-assisted content.

Lead data-driven discovery to uncover product opportunities, design and analyze experiments, define and forecast goal metrics, build analytics events and dashboards, and partner with product, engineering and design to influence roadmap and improve search/recommendation experiences.

Lead Canva's GenAI localisation program: coordinate cross-functional teams, design large-scale evaluation operations (human + automated), manage labellers and vendors, build dashboards and tooling, analyze localisation quality data, and communicate progress to stakeholders.

Design, implement and continuously improve compensation and total rewards programs. Partner with business leaders, People Partners and Talent Acquisition on job architecture, market benchmarking, compensation review cycles and governance. Use market data and internal insights to evaluate roles, recommend competitive and fair pay, and support equitable hiring and internal mobility. Communicate and operationalise reward initiatives across the People team.

Lead design, implementation, and productionization of large-scale recommendation models. Improve architecture, run online/offline experiments, integrate models with serving pipelines, evaluate performance, and mentor MLEs while collaborating across product and engineering teams.

Lead AI strategy for Productivity, identify high-value ML opportunities, toolify functionality for LLMs/agents, set technical patterns, unblock cross-team challenges, mentor engineers, partner with product/design, and ship scalable AI features measured by real user impact.

Design, build, and maintain high-performance C++ services and distributed systems for large-scale video ingestion, transcoding, storage, processing, and delivery. Optimize multimedia pipelines for performance, reliability, and cost, collaborate across product and engineering, and drive engineering excellence through testing, code review, and operational best practices.

Build and own portable libraries in Rust or C++ that run across iOS, Android and web. Drive cross-platform API and ABI design, ship production-grade performant systems, collaborate with frontend teams, and lead technical direction as an influential individual contributor.

Lead development of portable, high-performance libraries in Rust/C++ that run across iOS, Android, and web. Design safe FFI/ABI boundaries, ship production-grade cross-platform libraries, mentor peers as a hands-on Staff engineer, write clear design docs, and collaborate with frontend teams to ensure native-feeling APIs and reliable runtime behavior across devices.

Own and build portable, production-grade libraries in system languages (primarily Rust/C++) that run across iOS, Android and web. Drive cross-platform API/ABI design, native interop/FFI, and ergonomic library APIs for frontend consumers. Act as an influential individual contributor within the mobile platform, shipping performant libraries, collaborating with Staff peers, and communicating designs clearly to engineers.

Lead platform engineering initiatives to improve developer experience: define technical direction, build scalable self-service platforms and CLIs, drive observability and CI/CD standards, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-team, and participate in on-call for critical services.

Lead design-system core work by owning standards, primitives, testing tooling, and cross-platform utilities. Drive large-scale frontend quality improvements, partner with product teams, codify best practices, mentor engineers, and contribute to hiring and platform adoption across the frontend ecosystem.

Build and operate shared mobile test infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, simulator/emulator orchestration, and device farm integration. Develop CLI and tooling for local and CI workflows, implement quality gating for reliable automated tests, consolidate mobile workflows across teams, build monitoring and early-warning systems, and mentor engineers while codifying mobile infrastructure best practices.