Staff Software Engineer - Infra - Quality Platform - Remote across ANZ (Java/ Golang)

Canva
Melbourne,Posted 1 March 2026

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<ul><li><p><strong>Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.</strong></p></li></ul><p><strong>Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Where and how you can work</strong></p><p>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, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.</p><p><strong>What you’d be doing in this role</strong></p><p>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.</p><ul><li><p>You’ll design, build, and evolve core components of our Quality Platform, crafting the cutting-edge frameworks and tools that directly enable thousands of Canva engineers to test their features effectively and confidently.</p></li><li><p>Deliver on complex, high-stakes technical problems that span multiple systems and teams - navigating ambiguity, making sound architectural trade-offs, and shipping solutions that work reliably at massive scale.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>You’ll champion a seamless testing experience, innovating on our frameworks and tooling to tackle flakiness, improve developer ergonomics, and ensure engineers can easily write fast, reliable tests for Canva's UI.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>You’ll become a key partner for engineers across Canva, actively listening to their challenges, gathering feedback, and co-designing platform solutions that truly enhance their testing effectiveness and overall developer velocity.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>You’ll own the operational health and scalability of critical testing infrastructure, proactively monitoring, debugging, and improving systems to ensure they remain reliable and performant as Canva grows.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>You’ll streamline and accelerate the testing feedback loop by enhancing our CI/CD integrations, ensuring engineers get fast, reliable, and actionable results from their automated tests.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>You’ll continuously seek out opportunities for innovation, experimenting with new technologies and approaches to push the boundaries of our Quality Platform and amplify its impact on engineering productivity and product quality.</p></li></ul><p><strong>You're probably a match if</strong></p><p>We're looking for an engineer who is genuinely passionate about empowering fellow developers and gets truly excited by the challenge of building elegant, scalable platform solutions. You thrive on digging into complex technical problems, but you're ultimately driven by deep empathy for the end-user experience – in this case, making the lives of other Canva engineers significantly easier and more productive.</p><p><strong>Here’s what we value in this role:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Strong Software Engineering Craft: You have demonstrated experience building and maintaining robust software systems, applying strong knowledge of system design, data structures, and operational best practices.</p></li><li><p>Passion for Developer Empowerment: You have a genuine interest in, or experience with, building developer tools, testing infrastructure, CI/CD systems, or other platform-level solutions that improve the lives of engineers.</p></li><li><p>Understanding of Quality &amp; Testing: You possess a solid grasp of test automation principles across different levels (unit, integration, E2E) and understand the challenges involved in building reliable, maintainable test suites and frameworks.</p></li><li><p>Developer-Centric Mindset: You naturally put yourself in the shoes of your users (other engineers), demonstrating em ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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