Principal Partner Engineer — Ecosystem

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time-consuming, and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and how you can work Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus across the world and co-working spaces in numerous locations in the USA. But you have a choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals. You'll work on Pacific Time hours and collaborate daily with Canva's engineering teams in AEST. What you’d be doing in this role Canva's Ecosystem platform sits at the centre of how the world's agentic AI systems connect to visual design. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and the next wave of AI-native platforms are all building on, against, and through our MCP server, REST APIs, and Apps platform. The shape of those integrations is being decided right now, at the engineering layer, in real conversations with real technical counterparts. Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering. When a partner proposes a solution that won't work, you'll explain why, generate the realistic option set, and drive it to a decision with the owning Canva teams. You'll hold the technical detail on both sides and translate without losing precision. Set technical direction for Canva's external platform surface. The strategic question of where to invest, deprecate, and evolve doesn't sit inside any single team. You'll contribute to that direction, grounded in partner signal and engineering reality. Ground partner conversations in working code. At this level, partner conversations need to be grounded in what's actually runnable. You validate proposed solutions against Canva's real architecture to drive decisions that span multiple teams and partners, using working code as the proof po