Production Engineering Manager

Role overview

What you will do

• Lead software engineers through complex or ambiguous technical work and help them grow their autonomy.
• Turn loosely defined problems into focused engineering goals and support delivery.
• Set the team's focus, priorities and next phase as existing projects are completed.
• Shape initiative structure, measurement and the conversion of lessons into reusable capability.
• Set priorities, coach engineers and maintain the day-to-day health of the team.
• Create psychological safety and help engineers develop organisational fluency and influence.
• Build reliable services, reusable standards and feedback loops between Core and Embedded.
• Grow engineering depth so the team can handle increasingly complex technical and cross-team problems.

Experience

• Lead software engineers through complex or ambiguous technical work and coach their development.
• Work in software environments where reliability, scalability and production risk materially matter.
• Own significant technical initiatives from problem definition through delivery across multiple teams.
• Drive adoption of new tools, practices or ways of working.
• Communicate technical trade-offs clearly and set direction without prescribing every decision.
• Create an environment where engineers can challenge ideas, learn and do their best work.

Technical knowledge

• Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading and data structures.
• Depth in Go, Python, Java, C++ or another relevant language for meaningful technical engagement.
• Strong working knowledge of system internals, networking and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Reason through ambiguous problems involving multiple components, teams and constraints.
• Understand system design, architecture, engineering patterns, observability, capacity and failure modes.
• Experience working in large-scale or high-criticality production environments.

Nice to have

• Prior management experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering or a related function is advantageous.
• Large-scale storage, CDN, networking or distributed infrastructure experience is advantageous.
• Experience developing technical leaders or shaping an evolving technical function is advantageous.

Group and team

Benefits

• Equity packages are offered.
• Canva provides inclusive parental leave, a Vibe & Thrive allowance and flexible leave options.

Interview process

• Technology interviews may include interactive challenges and problem solving with an AI tool.
• Interviews are conducted virtually.