Principal Production Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define the Production Engineering engagement model and how it pairs with product and infrastructure teams
• Lead technically complex engagements involving sharding, multi-region architecture, and JVM performance
• Set the technical bar and standards for production engineering at Canva
• Influence the product roadmap to ensure production readiness upstream of problems
• Build measurement stories for incident severity, duration, and feature launch success
• Guide staff and mid-level engineers through strategic pairing and mentorship

Requirements

• Proven experience owning reliability in large-scale distributed systems
• Technical leadership experience in embedded or cross-functional engineering models
• Deep hands-on coding experience in Java, Go, Rust, C++, or comparable systems languages
• Strong understanding of Linux internals (process scheduling, memory, I/O, network stack)
• Expertise in distributed systems (sharding, replication, consensus, circuit breakers)
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and observability tooling
• Proficiency in performance analysis and profiling JVM applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Enterprise SaaS background
• Deep JVM internals knowledge, including GC tuning and thread profiling
• Experience with large-scale data store migrations or multi-region architecture

Benefits

• Equity packages
• Inclusive parental leave policy
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance
• Flexible leave options

About the Company

Canva is a global design platform redefining how the world experiences design, supporting hundreds of millions of monthly active users.