Responsibilities

• As an individual contributor, design and implement tools and libraries that service teams can use to improve the reliability of their services. For example – adding a new long-awaited feature in our circuit breaker library
• Conduct and automate chaos experiments to identify possible scenarios where cascading failures may occur and to verify the reliability measures we introduce to prevent this work as expected. For example: discovering what will happen when this newly introduced service goes down, or, does the fallback for a rare failure actually work?
• Work with product engineering teams to ensure that reliability best practices and tools are rolled out in every service across the whole organization. It’s not enough to create a new throttling library, we want to make sure that it’s successfully used in every service.
• Deep investigation into production incidents – followed up by applying the learnings to the code base
• Researching, developing, and justifying the best choices in the form of design docs for tools and processes that will shape the future of reliability at Canva
• Promote creative and conceptual problem-solving approaches; as opposed to framework- or library-heavy patchwork
• Propose new approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof Canva’s distributed cloud infrastructure as we scale 
• Participating in design meetings, hiring interviews, and code reviews

Requires Skills & Experience

• At least five (5) years of commercial experience of working as a reliability/chaos engineer in a large, distributed, cloud-based environment – any of the usual suspects (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) is fine!
• Be happy to work in Java, since our services and libraries are primarily written in Java 11
• Disciplined coding practices and experience with code reviews and pull requests
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills, both written and verbal. As a reliability engineer, you will need to share the knowledge, communicate and coordinate changes across multiple service teams.
• Solid understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns – load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking, etc – the good stuff

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus equity options
• Flexible daily working hours, we value work-life balance
• In-house chefs that cook delicious breakfast and lunch for us each day
• Onsite Gym; Yoga Benefits
• Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
• Pet-friendly offices
• Sponsored social clubs and team events
• Relocation budget for interstate or overseas individuals that legally qualify for visa sponsorship