Senior Software Engineer (Golang, Kubernetes) - Cloud Compute Team (open to remote across ANZ)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! 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 a Senior Software Engineer within the Cloud Compute team, you’ll be extending and operating foundational Kubernetes infrastructure that supports Canva's services, along with tooling to build and manage Linux machines. At the moment, this role is focused on: Designing, building, and operating Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple cloud providers Building and maintaining automation for cluster lifecycle management, node provisioning, and provider onboarding Developing platform tooling and abstractions that enable other Canva engineers to deploy and scale workloads without understanding the underlying infrastructure Investigating and resolving system performance and reliability issues across the compute stack Managing and improving the cluster addon ecosystem — the shared capabilities that make clusters production-ready Participating in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence through incident response, post-incident review, and preventive automation Contributing to technical decisions on architecture, tooling choices, and platform direction You're probably a match if You have strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns You have experience as a Senior Software Engineer building platform or infrastructure products in  Golang .  You have strong experience operating  Kubernetes  clusters in production at scale You have a deep understanding of Linux systems - kernel, networking, performance troubleshooting, OS image management Have have familiarity with infrastructure-as-code practices and GitOps workflows You have an understanding of cloud networking and security fundamentals You have experience with observability systems and practices (metrics, logging, alerting) You have a methodical approach to debugging complex distributed systems You are comfortable working across cloud providers, you don't need expertise in all of them, but you should be adaptable You have experience using generative AI tools in your engineering workflow About the team The Cloud Compute team owns Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, container orchestration, workload scheduling, and the integration of compute resources from multiple cloud providers into a unified platform. The team also owns the cluster addon ecosystem — the capabilities layered onto Kubernetes clusters that make them production-ready and observable. Cloud Compute is responsible for base images for all Canva compute use cases. The team operates at significant scale: 500,000+ vCPUs, 7,800+ GPUs, across production and non-production environments in multiple regions. About the role The role focused on Kubernetes infrastructure, Linux systems, and multi-cloud compute. You will work across the full lifecycle of compute infrastructure — from provisioning bare metal and virtual machines, to operating Kubernetes clusters, to building the platform tooling that other engineers at Canva depend on. The role sits at the intersection of infrastructure operations and platform engineering. You will operate production systems under on-call, but the team's trajectory is toward building products that automate operational work. You should be comfortable wit ... (truncated, view full listing at source)