Senior Software Engineer (Kubernetes, Golang)

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 Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect. This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals. What you’d be doing in this role At the moment, this role is focused on: Designing, building, and operating Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple cloud providers Building and maintaining custom xDS control planes Developing platform tooling and abstractions that enable other Canva engineers to deploy and scale workloads without understanding the underlying infrastructure Investigating and resolving system performance and reliability issues across the compute stack Managing and improving the cluster addon ecosystem — the shared capabilities that make clusters production-ready Participating in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence through incident response, post-incident review, and preventive automation Contributing to technical decisions on architecture, tooling choices, and platform direction You're probably a match if You have strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns You have experience as a Senior Software Engineer building platform or infrastructure products in Golang. Y