Senior Engineering Manager, Video Performance (Bay Area only)
Core
Leading and growing a team of engineering managers and senior engineers to define and drive long-term performance strategy for Canva's Video experiences, ensuring products remain fast, reliable, and scalable while expanding AI-powered capabilities.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Video Performance)
Builds
Video experiences, AI-powered video workflows, and scalable rendering systems for hundreds of millions of users.
Domain
Creative software, video streaming, AI-powered user experiences, and high-performance multimedia systems.
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering team leadership, performance engineering, systems optimization, multi-year technical strategy, cross-functional stakeholder alignment, data-driven decision making, architectural review, organizational growth.
Preferred skills
Video technologies, rendering systems, gaming engines, cross-platform technologies (C++, WebAssembly, graphics pipelines), Generative AI model inference, mobile performance ecosystems.
Technologies
C++, WebAssembly, graphics pipelines, native mobile platforms, profiling tools, performance monitoring platforms.
Responsibilities
Leading and growing a team of high-performing engineering managers and senior engineers; Defining and driving long-term performance strategy for the Video Group; Partnering with leaders across Video Engine, AI Research, Product, Design, and Platform teams; Establishing performance as a first-class engineering principle; Driving large-scale performance initiatives across web, native, and rendering systems; Building and evolving performance measurement frameworks and telemetry systems; Influencing technical direction through architecture reviews and strategic planning; Supporting career development and organizational growth.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader managing managers
