# Principal Production Engineer

**Company**: Canva
**Location**: Adelaide, SA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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, including how the team pairs with product and infrastructure teams

- Lead the hardest engagements, taking personal ownership of technically complex areas

- Set the technical bar for production engineers at Canva

- Pair strategy across the team, deciding how staff and mid-level engineers are paired and what they should learn from each engagement

- Connect to the product roadmap, working with engineering leadership to ensure Production Engineering is upstream of problems

- Build the measurement story, defining metrics and tracking progress

Requirements:

- Experience in production at scale, with a focus on reliability in large-scale distributed systems

- Technical leadership experience in embedded models, where engineers work across team boundaries

- Hands-on experience through seniority, staying close to the code and being consulted on hard problems

- Cross-organisational influence, shaping technical decisions in teams outside your own

- Depth in JVM or systems languages, such as Java, Go, Rust, or C++

- Experience with distributed systems, including sharding, replication, failure modes, and consistency tradeoffs

Nice to have:

- Enterprise SaaS background

- JVM internals experience

- Multi-region or sharding experience

Benefits:

- Equity packages

- Inclusive parental leave policy

- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance

- Flexible leave options

## Skills

### Required
- Production engineering
- Distributed systems
- JVM or systems languages
- Linux internals
- Observability tooling
- Containerisation and orchestration
- Performance analysis
- Cloud infrastructure
- Incident response

### Nice to have
- Enterprise SaaS background
- JVM internals
- Multi-region or sharding experience

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