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Principal Production Engineer at Canva

Seniority in posting: executive

Setup
Remote
Location
Adelaide, South Australia
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Canva is hiring a Principal Production Engineer to define and lead long-term, embedded production-reliability engagements across its highest-risk technical areas. The role focuses on complex distributed-systems work, JVM and systems performance, sharding and multi-region architecture, observability, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, incident response, and measurement, while shaping the production-engineering practice and pairing strategy across the organization. The position is a secondee, requires deep systems and distributed-systems experience, and offers equity, parental leave, wellbeing support, flexible leave, and virtual interviews.

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