Canva Hiring for Senior Software Engineer (Bazel) Job at Sydney Full Time

Canva’s Commitment and Mission

At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!

Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 86 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.

Join us and design your future.

At Canva, we’re transforming the way the world designs. Canva’s user base has grown by over 10x over the last 2 years, and serves millions of users every single month, all over the world, in over 100 languages, and across web and mobile platforms. To maintain high availability, top-notch performance, and the continued scalability of the environment as Canva grows, we’ve decided to grow our Infrastructure Group. We’re seeking self-motivated and talented engineers to join us in our Sydney global HQ.

You’ll be joining the Build Tools inside of our internal Developer Platform group which is responsible for making the engineering teams work better and faster. The Build Tools mission is to build code at scale. Canva is already a leader in Build tooling with a sophisticated monorepo architecture that uses Bazel under the hood. Our objective now is to foster the world’s best build stack.

This role is based in our Sydney office. However, it is remote-friendly for applicants physically-based anywhere in Australia or in New Zealand.

• Work to improve/maintain internal developer experience platforms that empower engineers to work efficiently.
• Work with product engineering teams to ensure build best practices and tools are rolled out in every service across the whole organization.
• Design, build and optimise build frameworks to build and test a monorepo architecture.
• Participate in solution design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews
• Work across CI, Static Analysis Tooling, IDE Integration (Bazel) and other developer-related domains as necessary to ensure Canva’s engineering teams continue to scale with the demands of the product suite

• Experience with build tools, Bazel, maven, Gradle, nix.
• Strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns
• Strong Object Oriented Programming fundamentals
• An understanding of the DevOps ecosystem concerning tooling, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Infrastructure as Code
• Be self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership over complex problems and their related solutions.
• Be capable of leading by example – promoting Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and engineering values.

Benefits

Competitive salary, plus equity options

Flexible working hours, we value work-life balance

In-house chefs that cook delicious breakfast and lunch for us each day

Free Gym and Yoga Membership

Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy

Pet-friendly offices

Sponsored social clubs and team events

Fun and quirky celebrations

Relocation budget for interstate or overseas individuals (see below for visa information)

The Canva workspace is set up for you to do your best work and have a great time doing so, with breakout areas, little nooks, and quiet places to retreat.

The Canva workspace is set up for you to do your best work and have a great time doing so, with breakout areas, little nooks, and quiet places to retreat.

Want to experience Canva for yourself?

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Learn how we work from Dave, our CTO

Get to know our Chef, Chris

Meet our CEO, Melanie

Finally, give Canva a go!

If you’re seeking professional growth and enjoy working on large, distributed, cloud-based applications that delight our millions of individual and business users alike – then apply now to be considered for the position!

If you require visa sponsorship, you must ensure you have at least two (2) years of post-University commercial experience as a Software Engineer and meet the mandatory sponsorship requirements laid out by Department of Home Affairs.

Working at Canva

Our culture is unlike anywhere else and we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life.

Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, our benefits for permanent Canvanauts include:

• Equity packages for you to truly be a part of the Canva journey.
• We have a hybrid work model (in-office & from home), so while our offices are always open to you, we aim to come together for 8 days a year at minimum – balancing flexibility and connection
• Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development.. because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
• Virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs and Fitness & Meditation Classes.
• Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations, Force for Good leave (3 paid volunteering days) and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.