Senior Fullstack Engineer – Observability
Canva
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Australia
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About the role
- Delivering features, taking ownership of the entire lifecycle from design doc through to implementation and release.
- Building cross-telemetry applications that surface actionable insights by combining data from logs, metrics, traces, and profiles to help engineers understand system health and diagnose issues quickly.
- Owning and operating the platform infrastructure that powers our observability applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as we grow.
- Partnering directly with engineering customers to gather requirements, understand their incident response workflows, and translate those needs into practical tooling solutions.
- Balancing best practices with user needs, applying your observability expertise to design solutions that follow industry standards while addressing Canva's specific requirements.
- Participating in incident response, leveraging your SRE/observability background to understand real-world usage patterns and continuously improve our tools based on operational experience.
- Being proactive in modernising our Observability tooling, and participating in brainstorming and developing proof of concept designs to determine how we can improve our existing systems.
- Guiding and mentoring other team members, sharing your observability expertise and helping the team grow their skills in both building and operating production services.
Requirements
- Strong Computer Engineering / Science knowledge around fundamentals and first principles relating to concurrency, multithreading, data structures, architecture, and various design patterns
- Strong full-stack engineering experience with React for frontend development and Golang for backend services.
- Deep observability domain knowledge from working as an SRE or on a dedicated observability team, with hands-on experience in incident response and understanding what makes effective observability tooling.
- Experience building user-facing applications for technical audiences, with the ability to gather requirements from engineers and translate them into intuitive tools.
- Proficiency with observability platforms and tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Loki, or similar systems, with understanding of how to query and visualize telemetry data.
- Understanding of distributed systems' observability, including experience working with logs, metrics, traces, and profiles across microservice architectures in cloud environments (ideally AWS).
- Infrastructure and operations experience, including deploying and operating production services, with knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (we use Terraform).
- Strong product thinking and customer empathy, with the ability to balance technical best practices with user requirements and advocate for the end-user experience.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, as this role requires significant documentation, cross-team alignment, and direct collaboration with engineering customers.
- Nice to have: Experience with multiple backend languages such as Python, Java, or others, which helps when working with diverse telemetry data sources and instrumentation libraries.
- Experience with Grafana's Scenes UI framework, or building custom Grafana plugins and applications.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and modern observability standards and practices.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
full-stack engineeringReactGolangobservabilityincident responseinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformdistributed systemsdata structuresdesign patterns
Soft skills
product thinkingcustomer empathycommunication skillsmentoringcollaboration