Senior Software Engineer (Observability)

You are proficient and happy to code in Python, Golang, and/or Java.

You have deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles.

You are proficient with infrastructure-as-code, we’re a Terraform and Jsonnet shop, but strong experience with other IaC tools will do the trick.

You have practical experience with and knowledge of AWS services (EC2, EKS, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, S3, MSK) or equivalent.

You have experience with Observability technologies – having competency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent.

Experience with highly reliable and available high throughput distributed data pipeline systems, with highly scalable databases.

Not essential, but helpful experience

Have deep experience with OpenTelemetry, as it underpins a lot of the tooling the team owns.

Have experience designing, building, and running metrics and monitoring infrastructure at a large scale; experience with distributed Prometheus clusters (Thanos, Cortex, Mimir, M3) or similar databases is highly regarded.

Have experience with data handling / pipelining at scale (experience with Kinesis and Kafka is highly regarded).

Have experience with Kubernetes, particularly running stateful workloads at scale.

Have experience with data security, data obfuscation.

Have experience with alerting and SLA/SLO theory and industry best practices.

About the team

The Observability Insights, Metrics and Profiles Team is part of the Observability sub-group and is responsible for the end-to-end experience for visualisation, metrics, continuous profiling, and standardised alerting for Canva products and services.

Our goal is to provide our development team with world-class tools to view how their services are performing in production. We achieve this by combining industry-leading third-party solutions with our own in-house developed solutions. We work across the entire stack maintaining metrics and profiling SDKs (Java, Golang, Python), data pipelines, and related infrastructure to tie it all together.

As we scale, all of these areas require more sophisticated solutions to ensure that Canva developers can continue to grow without compromising on reliability or availability.

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 range 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.