Description
Join the Production Engineering team at Canva, which sits at the intersection of software engineering and reliability problems in Canva's infrastructure.
The team focuses on finding and fixing the hardest problems in production, writing software that changes how production behaves, and ensuring that every team ships with more confidence.
As a Principal Production Engineer, you will define the engagement model for Production Engineering, lead the hardest engagements, set the technical bar, pair strategy across the team, connect to the product roadmap, build the measurement story, and compound at organisation scale.
Responsibilities:
- Defining the engagement model for Production Engineering
- Leading the hardest engagements
- Setting the technical bar
- Pairing strategy across the team
- Connecting to the product roadmap
- Building the measurement story
- Compounding at organisation scale
Requirements:
- Experience in production at scale
- Technical leadership in embedded models
- Hands-on through seniority
- Cross-org influence
- JVM or systems depth
- Distributed systems in practice
Technical knowledge:
- Linux internals
- Distributed systems
- Observability tooling
- Containerisation and orchestration
- Performance analysis
- Cloud infrastructure
- Incident response
Nice to have:
- Enterprise SaaS background
- JVM internals
- Multi-region or sharding experience
Benefits:
- Equity packages
- Inclusive parental leave policy
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance
- Flexible leave options