Senior Software Engineer - Developer Experience (Golang, Python)

You have a proven track record of building and operating systems at scale

You have experience supporting large engineering organizations (1000+ engineers)

You have strong experience with AWS or GCP (we use AWS)

You have experience with Containerization & Orchestration: Thorough Kubernetes experience in production environments

You have experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Built and maintained complex pipelines at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Buildkite, etc.)

You have experience with Bazel, Gradle, or similar monorepo build tools (Bazel experience highly valued)

You have Observability experience: Implemented comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting

Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

Highly Valued (Nice to Have)

Experience with release automation and deployment safety mechanisms

Background in developer tooling

Contributions to open source infrastructure or developer tools

Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into developer workflows

Prior work on build performance optimisation or test infrastructure at scale

About The Group

The Developer Experience (DevX) group makes software development at Canva faster, easier, and more enjoyable. Through three focused subgroups—Automation Pipeline, Developer Workflows, and Build & Collaboration—DevX provides the essential platforms, tools, and infrastructure that streamline the entire development journey. From optimising the inner loop and code collaboration, to automating testing and releases, to defining standards and partnering across platform teams, we're focused on removing friction and empowering Canvanuats to ship quality work with speed and confidence.

About the Team

Imagine if spinning up a development environment took seconds, not minutes. If your IDE just worked — fast, reliable, wherever you are. If AI agents could run autonomously in secure, scalable cloud environments. That's what we're building.

The Developer Environment team owns the platforms that power how every engineer at Canva develops — from cloud dev environments to IDE tooling and AI-enabled workflows. It's infrastructure that touches thousands of engineers every day. We're looking for someone who loves cloud and infrastructure at scale — AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform — and gets excited about making other engineers' lives measurably better.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too

Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers

An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more

Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. We’re evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience - you’ll tackle interactive, real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do. In some interviews, you may also be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to expect. We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture.