Staff Software Engineer - AI Developer Tooling Workflows

What you’d be doing:

• Define the technical vision and architecture for AI-orchestrated developer workflows.
• Establish new engineering paradigms around AI tooling, agent orchestration, and context engineering.
• Architect foundational AI systems and frameworks that become the platform every engineer at Canva relies on.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Solving challenges no one's solved before, with access to state-of-the-art tooling, models and infrastructure.
• Defining and architecting our enterprise-level strategic vision and technical roadmap for AI-orchestrated developer workflows at Canva
• Pioneering new AI engineering practices by researching and developing high-value AI methodologies, frameworks, and technologies that go beyond code generation to transform all parts of the Canva SDLC

You're probably a match if:

• You have a proven track record of technical vision-setting that influences large engineering organisations and establishes new domains or practices, particularly around AI/ML tooling or developer productivity
• You have deep practical experience building with and evaluating cutting-edge AI tooling for software engineering (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf, etc.)
• You have an expert understanding of the AI landscape, including LLMs, MCPs, Agent Skills frameworks, AI orchestration systems, and ML infrastructure