Staff Front-End Engineer, Telemetry

Canva

Staff Front-End Engineer focusing on building telemetry SDKs and performance metrics for Canva's product teams. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define measurement standards for AI-driven experiences.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇦🇺 AustraliaLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Telemetry and SDK design, with a strong focus on Frontend Observability and Browser Internals. Proficient in React, TypeScript, and state management using MobX, while driving cross-team adoption of innovative tooling.

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Telemetry At ScaleReactTypeScriptSDK DesignFrontend Observability

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Hard Skills

TelemetryObservabilityInstrumentationReactTypeScriptMobXPerformance APIsRenderingData StructuresComplexity

Soft Skills

Cross-Team InfluenceLeadershipCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Telemetry SDKFrontend StackData Warehouse

Industry Keywords

AI FluencyBrowser InternalsReal User MonitoringMetricsTracing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

MobXReactReact NativeTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Building the SDK developers love: Easy to instrument, easy to reason about, easy to extend.
Going deep into the browser stack: Gain insights into performance APIs, the rendering pipeline, and network layer.
Defining how Canva measures AI-driven experiences that traditional telemetry doesn't cover.
Owning the telemetry SDK direction, setting architecture, patterns, and conducting rallies across product teams.
Leading with code: Stay hands-on in SDK development and contributions.
Driving adoption across the product: Champion the SDK for all product teams at Canva.
Sparring with strong peers across cross-functional teams such as frontend, backend, data science, and analytics engineering.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience Telemetry at scale: Built or significantly evolved a frontend telemetry, observability, or instrumentation system in production.
Browser stack depth: You operate naturally at the browser layer.
Frontier instincts: You've worked on problems where the established playbook doesn't fully apply.
Staff altitude: You've been operating where both the problem and the solution are unknown.
Cross-team influence: Built tooling that other teams have adopted at scale.
AI fluency: Used agents in real work. Have a view on what changes for frontend engineering when AI is a daily part of the workflow.
Technical knowledge React and TypeScript: Production depth in Canva's frontend stack
MobX or equivalent: State management at scale in a large frontend application
Browser internals: Performance APIs, rendering, network, the layers underneath the framework
Frontend observability: Tracing, metrics, real user monitoring patterns
SDK design: Library API design that makes adoption easy for the engineers consuming it
Data-warehouse fluency: Enough to understand how captured telemetry flows downstream into analytics
Deep fundamentals: Engineering fundamentals from a CS background, including data structures, complexity, the hard parts

Benefits

Comp & perks

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