Senior Software Engineer - Networking

Senior Software Engineer - Networking

Canva

Role Seniority - senior

More about the Senior Software Engineer - Networking role at Canva

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Designing, building and operating a network spanning multiple infrastructure providers across the globe.
• Designing, building and operating software for infrastructure automation across multiple providers.
• Being on-call for the team’s products and drive operational excellence
• Working with our stakeholders across Security, Product, and other Platform teams to understand their needs as we forge Canva’s platform products

You're probably a match if

• You have strong software and networking engineering experience with Golang, Python or Java.
• You have a strong understanding of networking incl. routing protocols and network architecture, Linux networking concepts, e.g. nftables, FRR, and cloud networking in providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• You have experience in deploying and operating networks with cloud or NaaS providers or; operating networks in data centre, bare metal or telco environments.
• You have experience working with infrastructure platforms to create a foundation for building secure, reliable, and performant systems.
• You have experience with building infrastructure automation systems and control loop architectures.
• You have experience using declarative configuration to manage infrastructure.
• Experience as a software or network engineer building platform products to accelerate and empower engineers to achieve crazy big goals.

About The Team

The Networking team is responsible for workload identity, application networking, connectivity, VPCs, and internal PKI. The team is part of the Core Infrastructure Group, which is made up of approximately 70 Software Engineers, and their goal is to enable the safe, secure, and reliable operation of canva.com.

Core Infrastructure’s mission is to reduce the complexity of using infrastructure resources so that engineers can focus on their own domains. We build products to support engineers across the company to easily provision and