Senior Software Engineer - Developer Environment (Golang, Python)
Canva · Sydney, Australia · 7d ago
Company Description
Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work
Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect.
This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. 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.
As a Senior Software Engineer in DevX, you'll own critical infrastructure that directly impacts every engineer at Canva. You'll work across three potential domains depending on team placement:
- Automation Pipeline: Build and maintain CI/CD systems, test infrastructure, release automation, and deployment safety mechanisms
- Developer Workflows: Optimise developer experience across the SDLC including developer environments (local and remote), build system performance, IDE integrations, and AI-assisted development tooling
- Build & Collaboration: Maintain source control systems, monorepo tooling, build systems (Bazel), code review infrastructure, and developer environments
Your work will focus on high-leverage projects that eliminate systemic friction—whether that's reducing build times, automating release processes, or building self-service platforms that empower teams to move faster independently.
You're probably a match if
- You have a strong background in Platform Engineering, with solid programming experience in Python and Go; experience with Java or TypeScript is a plus.
- You have a proven track record of building and operating systems at scale
- You have experience supporting large engineering organizations (1000+ engineers)
- You have strong experience with AWS or GCP (we use AWS)
- You have experience with Containerization & Orchestration: Thorough Kubernetes experience in production environments
- You have experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Built and maintained complex pipelines at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildkite, etc.)
- You have experience with Bazel, Gradle, or similar monorepo build tools (Bazel experience highly valued)
- You have Observability experience: Implemented comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
Highly Valued (Nice to Have)
- Experience with release automation and deployment safety mechanisms
- Background in developer tooling
- Contributions to open source infrastructure or developer tools
- Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into developer workflows
- Prior work on build performance optimisation or test infrastructure at scale
About The Group
The Developer Experience (DevX) group makes software development at Canva faster, easier, and more enjoyable. Through three focused subgroups—Automation Pipeline, Developer Workflows, and Build & Collaboration—DevX provides the essential platforms, tools, and infrastructure that streamline the entire development journey. From optimising the inner loop and code collaboration, to automating testing and releases, to defining standards and partnering across platform teams, we're focused on removing friction and empowering Canvanuats to ship quality work with speed and confidence.
About the Team
Imagine if spinning up a development environment took seconds, not minutes. If your IDE just worked — fast, reliable, wherever you are. If AI agents could run autonomously in secure, scalable cloud environments. That's what we're building.
The Developer Environment team owns the platforms that power how every engineer at Canva develops — from cloud dev environments to IDE tooling and AI-enabled workflows. It's infrastructure that touches thousands of engineers every day. We're looking for someone who loves cloud and infrastructure at scale — AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform — and gets excited about making other engineers' lives measurably better.
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 stack 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 see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. We’re evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience - you’ll tackle interactive, real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do. In some interviews, you may also be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to expect. 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.