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Principal Production Engineer at Canva

Seniority in posting: executive

Setup
Remote
Location
Brisbane, Queensland
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Canva is hiring a Principal Production Engineer to define and lead long-term, embedded production engineering engagements across its highest-risk technical areas. The role focuses on complex distributed systems, JVM performance, sharding and multi-region architecture, observability, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, incident response, and performance analysis. The Principal will set technical standards, calibrate future hires, shape product-team production readiness, and improve reliability at scale. The position offers equity, parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, flexible leave, and virtual interviews.

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