Canva’s Commitment and Mission
At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!
Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 75 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 2,800 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.
Join us and design your future.
This role sits within the Gateway Team, which is responsible for the front line of our microservices, as well as the journey a request takes while travelling from one service to another. Gateway’s work is based on two cornerstones: Reliability and Velocity. We want to ensure that every request that hits Canva goes through the Gateway components, at ludicrous speeds, and that the developers who work on the platform can be efficient, productive, and most importantly, happy.
What you'll be doing (Responsibilities)
As an individual contributor, design and implement tools and libraries to improve the reliability of the Canva microservices (for instance, adding a new long-awaited feature in our circuit breaker library)Conduct and coordinate reliability experiments to identify possible scenarios in which failures might occur and verify the reliability measuresDesign and build services and tooling that help ensure each of Canva’s microservices are working optimally and are resilient to failuresHave widespread impact across the organisation by facilitating and orchestrating cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, velocity and securityA deep investigation into production incidents was followed up by applying the learning to codeResearching, developing, and rationalising the best choices in the form of design docs for features that will craft the future of CanvaIdentifying and addressing performance bottlenecks within the application and broader infrastructurePropose innovative approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof Canva’s distributed cloud infrastructure as we scale. Participating in design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews.
Required Skills & Experience
Five-plus (5+) years of commercial experience developing complex, distributed web applications on the JVM; experience writing Java (experience with other JVM languages such as Scala, Kotlin, etc is a huge plus - however, we primarily use Java 13)Familiar with asynchronous or reactive programming techniques and associated patterns; At our scale, writing blocking code is often not an optionComfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures, and distributed systemsExperience working in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS); CDNs, DNS. We're hosted on AWS and use the tools they provide as much as possibleWell-adapted coding practices, experience with code reviews and pull requests and a creative and conceptual problem-solving approach as opposed to framework or library-focused; We strive to build fast and lean solutions; not library/framework-heavy patchworkStrong communication and team collaboration skills, both written and verbal. A Canva engineer strives to understand the exact problem before jumping into writing code - look before you leap!
Nice to have; Not required!
Experience with RPC Frameworks, Finagle, Thrift or gRPC will be a huge plus, but not required; We strive to make sure that the communication layer is not a bottleneck, and simplifies the life of the product engineers as much as possibleKnowledge of networking protocols such as TCP, HTTP 1/2, QUIC, protobuf, etc. would be a big plus; The life of a request doesn't start inside the backend web server, but rather in the browser of a userAn understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns - load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking, etc; For Canva, reliability is a feature, and the Gateway and broader infrastructure teams aim to provide the best tools possible to the application engineers to ensure that Canva stays available at all times.
Benefits
Competitive salary, plus stock options via our ESOP planFlexible daily working hours, we value work-life balanceBreakfast and lunch prepared by our wonderful Vibe teamOnsite-Gym and Yoga MembershipEnd-of-Trip Facilities: Bicycle parking and showersGenerous parental (including secondary) leave policyPet-friendly officesInternal Coaches and an Employee Wellness ProgramSponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrationsThis role is open to remote applicants based in Australia
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Working at Canva
Our culture is unlike anywhere else and we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life.
Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, our benefits for permanent Canvanauts include:
- Equity packages for you to truly be a part of the Canva journey.
- We have a hybrid work model (in-office & from home), so while our offices are always open to you, we aim to come together for 8 days a year at minimum - balancing flexibility and connection
- Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development.. because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
- Virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs and Fitness & Meditation Classes.
- Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations, Force for Good leave (3 paid volunteering days) and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
