Canva

Machine Learning Engineer

• You'll design, implement, and refine machine learning models to deliver personalized recommendations, taking on the most complex and ambiguous parts of the system.
• You'll improve the architecture, code structure, and performance of our machine learning systems, helping raise the engineering quality bar across the team.
• You'll investigate research papers and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and judge which ones are worth bringing into production at Canva.
• You'll lead the design of online and offline experiments to validate model performance, and make data-driven calls on what to ship and what to iterate on.
• You'll shape how our machine learning models integrate with the broader technology stack, ensuring strong performance and reliability across the pipeline.
• You'll work closely with product and engineering teams to deploy new recommendation features, driving alignment when initiatives span multiple teams.
• You'll document and communicate your work to both technical and non-technical stakeholders — including senior leadership — and mentor MLEs around you through reviews, pairing, and shared knowledge.

Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Recommendations

Full-stack Engineer

• Join the team redefining how the world experiences design
• Set the technical direction for all mobile development tooling
• Lead the test automation framework
• Design and evolve the mobile test automation framework for synthetic and integration testing
• Set the CI/CD quality gating strategy
• Consolidate what's fragmented across Native Infra, Cross Platform, and DevX
• Define and publish mobile testing best practices and methodologies
• Create company-wide triage workflows and monitoring for mobile development

Staff Software Engineer – Mobile Workflows

Platform Engineer

• Build the frontend layer of the Portable Platform: Design and ship the frontend architecture that lets React engineers write once and run across web and React Native. The abstraction has to be clean enough that product engineers never have to think about which runtime they’re targeting.
• Lead the React Web to React Native transition: Navigate the extraction from a pure React Web codebase to React Web plus React Native. Make the transition clean. The decisions made here shape how Canva’s frontend codebase evolves for years.
• Own the web implementations of common abstractions: Build the web side of shared Portable Platform components — the pieces that work consistently across iOS, Android, and browser. You own the web runtime slice of that contract.
• Support the upskilling of frontend engineers: Six hundred-plus frontend engineers are moving from a world where they only had to think about web. Help them understand the new mental model — through code standards, documentation, design reviews, and direct collaboration.
• Bring SSR and React Server Components into the picture: Server-side rendering and RSC are part of this story — particularly how a backend wires up to the portable frontend layer. This isn’t the headline, but it matters, and you’ll need to reason about it well.
• Stay hands-on: Staff engineers at Canva ship code. You’ll be in the codebase, writing design docs, committing to production. The architecture work and the engineering work aren’t separate here.

Staff Front End Engineer – Portable Platform

Production Engineer

• Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
• The Production Engineering team sits at the intersection of software engineering and the hardest reliability problems in Canva's infrastructure.
• Writing software. Changing how production behaves. When it works, every team ships with more confidence and Canva gets faster and more resilient for the people who use it every day.
• The strategic bet is a different model entirely. Canva's own take on what production reliability looks like, built for how we work.
• Not operationalising systems. Not running alerts. Writing software that changes how production behaves.
• Leading the hardest engagements: Taking personal ownership of the most technically complex areas, sharding, multi-region architecture, JVM performance at scale, while the team builds depth in adjacent domains.
• Setting the technical bar: What it means to be a production engineer at Canva. The standard for technical credibility. The archetype that future hiring calibrates against.
• Pairing strategy across the team: Deciding how staff and mid-level engineers are paired and what they should be learning from each engagement.
• Building the measurement story: Incident severity and duration trending down. Feature launches going to production cleanly. You define what the metrics are and how they're tracked.

Principal Production Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

• Join the team redefining how the world experiences design
• Drive the evolution of Canva's frontend stack and tackle unique technical challenges in the design system domain
• Own the Portable UI Platform and ship shared React components across web and React Native before end of 2026
• Abstract cross-platform complexity in the design system layer
• Set the standards for how portable components are built, distributed, and consumed
• Mentor engineers through a steep learning curve during the shift from web-first to cross-platform
• Influence across boundaries by working with product teams to understand their needs and sequence the work
• Lead strategic technical direction for the Design System Evolution team
• Evolve the design system for an AI-native world by identifying necessary changes and investments
• Shape frontend engineering at Canva by codifying best practices and methodologies

Staff Front-End Engineer – Design Systems

• Owning an engagement area: Taking long-term accountability for one of Canva's highest-risk technical domains
• Writing production software: The work is code, not process
• Instrumenting, refactoring, rebuilding the pieces that cause problems at scale
• You're a software engineer first; the reliability outcome at scale is what you're optimising for
• Opportunity to pair, mentor and learn from fellow production engineers
• Striving for fewer incidents, faster recovery, lower severity, latency that bends in the right direction
• Taking pride in moving needle metrics, that positively impacts the quality of the customer experience

Staff Production Engineer

General Counsel

• Provide strategic, commercially pragmatic advice on employment law matters in APAC.
• Advise on day-to-day employment matters across Canva’s employee and contingent workforce, including performance management, exits, investigations, and regulatory issues.
• Partner closely with People, Total Rewards, Finance and other key stakeholders to support Canva’s growth and evolving workforce model.
• Support the development and implementation of scalable employment frameworks, policies, processes and guidance.
• Identify and manage employment-related legal risks while enabling Canva’s growth and operational objectives.
• Deliver practical training and guidance to People teams and business leaders.
• Collaborate with Employment Legal colleagues globally on cross-border matters, strategic projects and shared priorities.
• Manage employment disputes, claims and regulatory inquiries, partnering with external counsel where required.

Senior Legal Counsel, Employment

Artificial Intelligence

• Label, annotate, and evaluate photos, graphics, videos, stickers, and designs in French — assessing linguistic quality, accuracy, and cultural appropriateness
• Evaluate AI-generated content against Canva's quality bar for French users, helping shape how AI experiences are delivered in your language
• Build and contribute French-specific datasets to support the internationalization of Canva AI features
• Deliver labeled assets on time, meeting output targets across a variety of task types and labeling guidelines
• Review and refine your own labels based on feedback to maintain accuracy and consistency
• Collaborate with in-house data labeling teams across the Philippines and EU for ongoing quality alignment

AI Quality Evaluator – French

• Label, annotate, and evaluate photos, graphics, videos, and designs in Arabic.
• Assess linguistic quality, accuracy, and cultural appropriateness.
• Evaluate AI-generated content for Arabic-speaking users.
• Build Arabic-specific datasets for Canva's AI features.
• Deliver labelled assets on time meeting output targets.
• Collaborate with Data Labelling teams for quality alignment.

AI Quality Evaluator, Arabic – 12 month contract

• Labelling, annotating, and evaluating content in German
• Evaluating AI-generated content for quality
• Building German-specific datasets
• Meeting output targets
• Collaborating with Data Labelling teams