Software Engineer - Cloud Compute

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. At the moment, this role is focused on: Designing, building, and maintaining core Kubernetes infrastructure components. Extending and supporting tooling to build and manage virtual machines. Investigating and resolving system performance and reliability issues. Creating and refining automation to improve reliability and reduce operational overhead. Being on-call for the team's products and drive operational excellence. Sharing knowledge with other engineers in infrastructure best practices. The Runtime Platform sub-group is committed to empowering application developers by providing a secure, reliable, and adaptable platform that serves as the foundation for their creativity. Our work encompasses cloud networking, golden machine images, container orchestration, and application networking, all designed to inspire innovation and facilitate seamless application development. At the heart of this sub-group is the Cloud Compute team, a dedicated group of senior engineers distributed across Australia. They manage the robust operation of our extensive Kubernetes clusters, which support over 140,000 pods across 8,500 nodes, utilizing 300,000 CPUs and 1.2 PiB of memory across multiple regions.