Production Engineering Manager

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What you'd be doing in this role

This role leads Core, one of Production Engineering's two teams.

You'll lead a team of software engineers who own Production Engineering's services and take on broader engineering problems that cut across multiple teams and groups. Core complements our Embedded team: where Embedded tackles targeted problems inside other parts of Canva, Core can take the strongest ideas and turn them into capability that works more broadly across the organisation.

Your job is to help the team turn complex, sometimes loosely defined problems into focused engineering goals and get them delivered. You'll stay close enough to the technical work to challenge assumptions, understand trade-offs and help engineers make strong decisions, while giving them the autonomy to own the detail.

Core is still taking shape. Several in flight projects have carried over from Reliability Foundations, and as those roll off through the rest of the year, you'll help define the team's next phase by setting its focus, priorities and the problems Core takes on next. You'll also help shape how initiatives are structured and measured, and turn lessons from individual pieces of work into capability with broader reach and impact across Canva.

You'll also own the day-to-day health of the team: setting clear priorities, coaching engineers directly, creating psychological safety and helping their team develop organisational fluency and influence.

Looking ahead, this role will help build:

Reliable services at scale: Help Core's services and capabilities keep pace as Production Engineering grows and more teams come to depend on their skills and expertise.

Standards worth reusing: Turn lessons from individual problems and engagements into engineering practices and capabilities that can be applied more broadly.

A strong Core–Embedded loop: Build the feedback loops that let targeted learning from Embedded become reusable capability through Core.

Growing engineering depth: Coach engineers to take on increasingly complex technical and cross-team problems as Core's scope grows.

You’re probably a match

We'd love to hear from you if you fit one or more of these. You don't need to meet all of them, but the more the better and if you join the team, we're invested in helping you grow.

Experience

Leading engineers: You've led software engineers through complex or ambiguous technical work and know how to coach people to grow their skills and autonomy.

Production exposure: You've worked in software environments where reliability, scalability and production risk genuinely mattered.

Delivery ownership: You've taken significant technical initiatives from understanding the problem through to delivery, including work spanning multiple teams.

Driving adoption: You've helped teams adopt new tools, practices or ways of working, even when they were busy or already had an established approach.

Engineering leadership: You can communicate technical trade-offs clearly, set direction without prescribing every decision, and create an environment where engineers can challenge ideas, learn and do their best work.

Technical knowledge

CS fundamentals: A strong grounding in computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, multithreading and data structures.

Language depth: Enough depth in languages such as Go, Python, Java or C++ to engage meaningfully with designs, implementation choices and technical trade-offs.