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Develop and maintain high-performance C++ services, frameworks, and tools for Canva’s large-scale video platform. Design distributed systems for multimedia ingestion, processing, storage, transcoding, and delivery. Optimize reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency while troubleshooting complex production issues. Collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams to improve video editing and playback experiences, and contribute to engineering excellence through testing, reviews, and operational best practices.

Serves as the hands-on technical lead for Canva’s Video Editor team. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, reviewing designs, integrating a native video rendering engine, developing a video-specific data model, and owning operational performance after launch. The role also establishes engineering standards through code review and mentoring while collaborating across audio, video, effects, and AI teams.

Staff Enterprise Security Engineer responsible for setting technical direction and securing internal enterprise systems, including endpoints, networks, identities, SaaS tools, and AI agents. The role involves partnering with teams to identify risks, develop security roadmaps, review tools and agents, threat model emerging technologies, establish security standards, and automate controls. This is a senior individual contributor position requiring hands-on production security engineering and strong cross-functional influence.

Manage Canva’s global Education Content program, coordinating planning, production, budgets, workforce operations, reporting, communications, and cross-functional initiatives. Build scalable processes, tracking systems, and automations across distributed teams while aligning content funnels, product, marketing, partnerships, and international stakeholders. Support senior leaders and improve delivery efficiency through AI and workflow automation.

Develop self-service infrastructure and developer workflows for Canva’s large-scale Bazel monorepo. Maintain and optimize CI/CD, build systems, test frameworks, cloud infrastructure, remote execution, and internal developer platforms. Partner with engineering teams to implement build best practices, troubleshoot complex build and runtime issues, participate in design reviews and hiring, and mentor teammates. The role also contributes to Bazel support for Rust, React Native, C++, WebAssembly, IDE integration, and hardware-aware builds.

Leads Canva’s corporate accounting team and month-end close activities, including cash, intercompany, leases, accruals, reconciliations, acquisitions, and internal controls. The role manages and develops accountants, resolves cross-functional accounting issues, supports system integrations and enhancements, standardizes processes, and drives scalable close operations across a global organization.

Owns planning and delivery of Canva’s Data program portfolio, including complex cross-functional initiatives such as data governance, classification, access control, and AI-ready infrastructure. The role manages scope, sequencing, risks, dependencies, milestones, and delivery governance while partnering with Data, Engineering, Product, Legal, Security, and Growth teams. It requires influencing without authority, improving delivery practices, and driving strategic programs from ambiguous mandates to measurable outcomes.

Own strategic sourcing and commercial strategy across indirect spend categories including professional services, staffing, BPO, system integration, workplace, insurance, and marketing. Lead complex negotiations, develop category strategies, manage supplier and contract pipelines, identify cost optimization opportunities, and advise senior stakeholders. Build scalable sourcing processes, improve spend visibility, manage risk, and partner with Legal, Finance, and Risk to deliver measurable commercial value.

Build and maintain frontend performance monitoring SDKs, dashboards, CI/PR checks, data pipelines, and developer tools. Use OpenTelemetry and real-user data to identify performance regressions, statistically evaluate changes, and improve web performance at scale. Partner with platform and infrastructure teams, investigate bottlenecks with profiling tools, and communicate findings to technical and executive stakeholders while guiding engineering practices.

Build and own portable, production-grade libraries in Rust or C++ for Canva’s iOS, Android, and web platforms. Define cross-platform interfaces, safety models, APIs, and foreign-function integrations. Work hands-on with Staff engineers to shape mobile platform direction, communicate technical designs, and ensure reliable performance across runtimes. The role requires deep native mobile expertise, systems programming, React Native fluency, and strong technical leadership without direct reports.