As an Engineering Manager in the Observability team at Canva, you will lead a high-performing engineering team focused on building and maintaining platforms that provide deep, reliable insight into Canva's production systems. This role involves shaping the long-term observability strategy, driving platform modernization, and ensuring excellent developer experience across observability tooling.
What You'll Do
- Owning and leading a high-performing engineering team, with a strong focus on career development, wellbeing, and impact
- Partnering with Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to define and execute Canva’s longer-term observability strategy
- Translating high-level goals into clear roadmaps, priorities, and delivery plans
- Own the reliability, availability, and performance of Canva’s critical observability platforms, including tracing and exception systems
- Driving modernisation of the observability stack, including deeper OpenTelemetry adoption and platform improvements
- Ensuring observability capabilities translate into intuitive, effective developer experiences across workflows, visualisations, and tooling
What We're Looking For
- Held a technical leadership role, including people leadership or team management experience
- Built, operated, or supported large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS ideally)
- Have strong foundations in computer engineering and systems thinking
- Care deeply about reliability, scalability, and developer experience
- Communicate clearly and can align teams through thoughtful documentation and discussion
Nice to Have
- Experience with OpenTelemetry
- Experience working with observability tooling such as Grafana, Mimir, ClickHouse, or similar
- Experience coding in Go
Technical Stack
OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Mimir, ClickHouse, AWS, Go
Team & Environment
Part of Infrastructure → Observability team; works across telemetry libraries, ingestion pipelines, storage platforms, and developer-facing tools
Benefits & Compensation
- Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave for all parents and carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, connection, and workspace needs
- Flexible leave options to recharge, give back, or focus on what matters most
Compensation includes equity packages.
Work Mode
Remote position available in ANZ.
We make hiring decisions based on experience, skills, and passion — and how you’ll help Canva and our culture thrive. We celebrate all kinds of backgrounds, so even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you. Interviews are conducted virtually.
