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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building infrastructure for backend services, with a focus on reliability, performance, and correctness. Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical direction across teams while ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Infrastructure DesignAPI Gateway ExperienceService Mesh InfrastructureMulti-Language DevelopmentStaff-Level Software Engineering
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills
Infrastructure BuildingService CommunicationTraffic RoutingReliability EngineeringPerformance OptimizationCorrectness AssuranceHigh-Transaction SystemsProgramming LanguagesTechnical DirectionTrade-Off Evaluation
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationGenuine Ownership
Industry Keywords
Backend EngineeringHigh Traffic SystemsLarge Scale InfrastructureCommercial Production Systems
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design and build core infrastructure connecting services across Canva's backend engineering organization
- Lead a major migration of backend service communication
- Collaborate with partner engineering teams and leaders
- Drive support for additional programming languages and frameworks
- Own reliability, performance, and correctness of systems on the critical path for the engineering organization
- Mentor engineers and raise the team's technical bar
- Build and run infrastructure for service communication, traffic routing and security, and multi-language development across Canva's platform
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience building and operating infrastructure depended on by other engineering teams
- Experience in API gateway, RPC, or service mesh infrastructure, ideally at high traffic and large scale
- Ability to own systems where reliability and correctness are critical
- Ability to evaluate trade-offs rather than pursue quick fixes
- Ability to drive technical direction across teams without direct reporting relationships
- Clear communication with engineers and platform-consuming teams
- Genuine ownership of outcomes
- Years of experience owning large-scale, high-transaction commercial production systems
- Experience working in more than one programming language is ideal
- Staff-level software engineering experience
- Must be based in Australia
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity packages
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
- Flexible leave options
- Flexible work arrangements: work from home, company workspaces, or a mix of both
- Virtual interviews