Engineering Manager – Provisioning Essentials (Infra)

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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 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.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

Providing a successful balance of people, technical, and delivery leadership to drive high-performing and engaged teams. Working closely with product owners and other stakeholders, you will keep the team focused and aligned, ensuring the team is quickly and efficiently delivering on its goals while fostering a safe and inclusive environment for people to experiment, learn and grow.

• Defining Technical Direction: Owning and driving the team’s technical strategy and roadmap, aligning with broader company objectives while articulating this vision to team members.
• Leading Strategy Execution: Leading the team to refine objectives and set clear goals, ensuring alignment between company goals and team deliverables.
• Driving Team Performance: Maintaining a culture of high performance and accountability, breaking down goals into actionable tasks and overseeing successful delivery.
• Motivating & Aligning Teams: Inspiring and aligning team interests with priorities, providing clear feedback and fostering collaboration between cross-functional leads.
• Cultivating Team Culture: Nurturing a healthy and inclusive engineering culture, fostering growth and development opportunities for team members while upholding operational best practices.

You’re probably a match if:

• Proven track record in defining and executing technical strategies aligned with broader company goals.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams to achieve impactful and reliable technical delivery.
• Exceptional communication skills and the capability to motivate and align diverse teams toward common objectives.
• A commitment to fostering an inclusive and collaborative team culture, nurturing growth and development opportunities.
• The ideal candidate will also have a background or demonstrated experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure and Terraform.

About the team

The Cloud Platform group owns Canva’s cloud infrastructure, ensuring the safe, secure and reliable operation of the organization. Our mission is “to reduce the complexity burden of using the Cloud”, which we achieve through a combination of: tooling and services we provide, comprehensive developer documentation library, and a team of experts who love a good challenge.

Our platforms support engineers across the company to: provision, release, run, and operate cloud workloads. We do all this in the simplest and most secure way possible. What we create frees engineers from having to worry about what goes on under the hood, allowing them to produce their best work.

We are the stewards of a seamless, scalable ecosystem that’s extensible, easy to use, and backed by uncompromising security.

The Provisioning Essentials team is the IaC Platform team whose primary mission is to provide a best-in-class platform and user experience to empower teams to self-serve their infrastructure. The team oversees the infrastructure-as-code toolchain which manages the 9000+ Terraform modules used to provision everything needed to host the fastest growing design platform in the world.

What’s in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard – and we do – but you’ll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here’s a taste of what’s on offer:

• Equity packages – we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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