San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
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Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines · On-site
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San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · On-site
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Seoul, South Korea · On-site
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Hybrid
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid
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Beijing, Beijing, China · On-site
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Hybrid
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Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid
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San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid
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London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Seoul, South Korea · On-site
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London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid
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San Francisco, California, United States • Hybrid
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Lead and grow a team of engineering managers and senior engineers focused on performance across Canva's Video experiences. Define and drive the long-term performance strategy for Canva's Video Group, ensuring products remain fast, reliable, and scalable.
Extensive experience leading engineering teams in fast-paced environments with a track record of building high-performing organizations is required. Deep technical expertise in performance engineering and systems optimization is essential, along with strong communication skills.
Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!
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.
Our flagship office is in Sydney, Australia, but we've made our way from down under, to a hub in San Francisco, which is now home to our US operations and now Video teams. We offer flexibility in how and where you work. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
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:
Leading and growing a team of high-performing engineering managers and senior engineers focused on performance across Canva's Video experiences, creating an environment where people can do the best work of their lives.
Defining and driving the long-term performance strategy for Canva's Video Group, ensuring our products remain fast, reliable, and scalable as we continue to expand AI-powered capabilities and serve hundreds of millions of users globally.
Partnering closely with leaders across Video Engine, AI Research, Product, Design, and Platform teams to align performance investments with company priorities and user outcomes.
Establishing performance as a first-class engineering principle by building shared accountability, frameworks, and operating rhythms that enable teams across Canva to proactively identify and address performance challenges.
Driving large-scale performance initiatives across web, native, and rendering systems, balancing immediate user-impacting improvements with long-term platform investments.
Building and evolving performance measurement frameworks, telemetry systems, and engineering health metrics that enable data-driven decision making across the organization.
Influencing technical direction through architecture reviews, strategic planning, and executive-level discussions to ensure new capabilities are designed with scalability, efficiency, and maintainability in mind.
Supporting career development, succession planning, and organizational growth while fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
You're probably a match if
You have extensive experience leading engineering teams and engineering leaders in fast-paced, product-driven environments, with a demonstrated track record of building healthy, high-performing organizations.
You bring deep technical expertise in performance engineering, systems optimization, or platform engineering, with experience working on performance-critical products at scale.
You have strong systems thinking across frontend, backend, native platforms, rendering engines, or multimedia systems, and can effectively navigate complex technical trade-offs.
You have successfully developed and executed multi-year technical strategies that delivered measurable improvements in user experience, platform scalability, or engineering efficiency.
You are skilled at influencing across organizational boundaries, aligning diverse stakeholders around shared goals, and driving execution through ambiguity.
You communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to audiences ranging from engineers to executive leadership.
You use data, experimentation, and customer insights to guide decisions and measure impact, balancing long-term architectural investments with pragmatic business outcomes.
Nice to have:
Experience leading teams working on video technologies, rendering systems, gaming engines, or other real-time performance-sensitive platforms.
Experience with cross-platform technologies including C++, WebAssembly, graphics pipelines, or native mobile platforms.
Familiarity with performance optimization challenges related to Generative AI, model inference, and AI-powered user experiences.
Deep understanding of mobile performance ecosystems, profiling tools, and performance monitoring platforms.
Experience scaling engineering organizations during periods of rapid growth and organizational change.
The Video Group at Canva is on a mission to make professional-quality video creation accessible to everyone. We're building powerful creative tools that help millions of people tell stories, communicate ideas, and bring their visions to life through video.
The Performance team sits at the heart of this mission, ensuring that innovation never comes at the expense of speed, reliability, or user experience. We work across multiple disciplines and technologies to solve some of Canva's most complex performance challenges, from rendering and playback systems to AI-powered workflows and platform scalability.
As a Senior Engineering Manager based in the Bay Area, you'll play a critical leadership role in shaping both the technical direction and organizational growth of this space, helping Canva deliver exceptional experiences to users around the world.
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 range 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
Health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing
401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
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
At Canva we value fairness, and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learnt in the hiring process. The target salary range for this position is $251,000 to $329,000. When calculating offers, we make salary decisions based on market data and candidates' skills and experience.
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills, merit and business needs, in compliance with applicable local laws.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!
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.
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
Empower the world to design.
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.
Offices: Kippax St, Surry Hills, New South Wales 2010, AU · 116 V. A. Rufino St, Coherco Corporate Center, Makati, National Capital Region 1229, PH · 3A Shilipu Road, Vanke Times Center, Beijing, Chaoyang 101101, CN · 200 E 6th St, Austin, Texas 78701, US
Empower the world to design.
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.
Offices: Kippax St, Surry Hills, New South Wales 2010, AU · 116 V. A. Rufino St, Coherco Corporate Center, Makati, National Capital Region 1229, PH · 3A Shilipu Road, Vanke Times Center, Beijing, Chaoyang 101101, CN · 200 E 6th St, Austin, Texas 78701, US
