Job Description Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. 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 in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. But you have 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. What you’d be doing in this role As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. This will give you the flavor of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve. About the group You will be joining the Data Platform Group in the Infrastructure Super Group at Canva. The Data Platform Group aims to enable significant, scalable, and sustainable value via data and insights, through building a world-class data platform and empowering Canvanauts with efficient & effective data capabilities. The Group is responsible for building Canva’s innovative data infrastructure, platforms, and services that enable Canva to deliver high-impact outcomes to our customers and our business. Role Responsibilities: Design and implementation of a declarative infrastructure management framework for Canva’s data platform (Snowflake and AWS) to enable self-service data pipeline and analytics development by Canva’s data community. Build out automated governance for the data platform across all data workloads. Uplift & iterate data access controls framework towards finer grain controls and policy-based access controls. Improve development practices through improvement to testing strategies and frameworks. Contribute towards the growth of data platform teams, including hiring, onboarding, and training of fellow engineers. Contribute towards up/cross skill training on usage of the data platform in Canva’s data community. Uplift engineering practices, especially on engineering, architecture, and documentation. Engage with the data community to improve data platform capabilities and tooling. Proactively search and identify opportunities, shape, and lead data platform initiatives to achieve material business value. Required Experience: You have five-plus (3-5+) years of commercial experience developing complex applications in Python. Architecture and design experience for modern MPP cloud-based data platform and warehouse, Snowflake and AWS preferred. Implementing data platform infrastructure resource management framework using Infrastructure as Code declaratively (e.g., Terraform). Experience improving testing frameworks and strategies, e.g., unit testing and integration testing. Prior experience building and uplifting data governance capabilities, including managing lineage, classification, treatment, access control, sovereignty, etc. You have extensive experience in developing clean, readable, and maintainable code; the libraries and tools developed by the team are used by hundreds of developers at Canva, so they need to be easily understandable. You are comfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures. Nice to have: Prior experience in data processing using Analytical SQL. 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, and more. Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge, and support you personally. Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info. Other stuff to know We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills, and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process. We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva, so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
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Software Engineer (python) - Data Platform (open To Remote Across Anz)
100,000 NZ$
Software Engineer (python) - Data Platform (open To Remote Across Anz)
New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland,
Modified May 8, 2025
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Canva is an online design platform that makes design easy for everyone. Our mission is to democratise design and creation and allow anyone to turn their vision into a design for web and print.
Team and culture:
While Canva’s growth has exploded we have grown the team slowly focusing on quality over quantity. With half of the founding team hailing from Google we have an extremely strong engineering culture driven by rapid decision making, using the most appropriate tool for the task and striking a measured balance between getting things done and long term maintainability.
Our office culture is driven by a positive, friendly and productive vibe, we are constantly thinking about how we can maintain and evolve this as we grow which leads us to place as much importance on team fit as technical ability. While everyone on the Canva team believes in the ‘big vision’ small decisions are driven balance of data, what is best for the end user and a best idea wins philosophy.