Responsibilities

• Be responsible for growing and developing the infrastructure engineering division at Canva bringing on board world-class talent and nurturing the progression of current members within the team
• Be a people leader who knows how to make everyone else around them smarter and more effective
• Creating a high performing and highly engaged team of world-class engineers who are building for billions
• Ensure the happiness and effectiveness of your direct reports (team leads) – coaching, inspiring, motivating, and most importantly — empowering them by giving them crazy big responsibilities, crazy big goals, and the opportunity to grow and prosper while they deliver on those goals
• Drive delivery of large-scale projects from ideation to completion within start-up time frames to ensure Canva’s overall reliability, performance, security, and stability
• Take a customer-focused approach to technical leadership, working to strike a balance between company and team priorities whilst communicating the Infrastructure Group’s priorities and strategy back to the business
• Working with other engineering leads to ensure we continue improving code quality, technical mentorship, staffing, recruitment, and retention
• Think ahead and build for the future as opposed to band-aid fixes for today – balancing the “getting things done” part of the job with long-term future-proofing of Canva’s infrastructure
• Developing both technical and people leaders on the Infrastructure team, creating a team for the present and future needs of Canva

Required Skills & Experience

• Five or more (5+) years of technical and people leadership, having previously created high performing and psychologically safe teams, where everyone is able to share their best ideas and be their best selves
• Experience at scale – either delivering large transformation projects (for example, moving a large application from single-region to multi-region in the cloud) or previous experience leading groups of engineering teams with headcounts of 50+
• Previous hands-on experience as a Software Engineer – and still in tune with software engineering fundamentals and first principles. You are a strong people leader who is still an Engineer at heart
• Previous leadership experience in cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) with a working knowledge of broad infrastructure functions – CI/CD pipelines, automation, site reliability, security, etc
• Previous experience in a SaaS, eCommerce, or other B2B/B2C online product environment is desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with the ability to work with a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds and with different professional and personal needs
• Be capable of leading by example – promoting Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and engineering values

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus stock options via our ESOP plan
• Flexible daily working hours, we value work-life balance
• Breakfast and lunch prepared by our wonderful Vibe team
• Onsite-Gym and Yoga Membership
• End-of-Trip Facilities: Bicycle parking and showers
• Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
• Pet-friendly offices
• Internal Coaches and an Employee Wellness Program
• Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
• Relocation budget for interstate or overseas individuals (see below for visa information)