Senior Frontend Engineer Performance Monitoring

• Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne. But you have choice in where and how you work we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.

• Youll design and maintain lightweight SDKs dashboards and CI/PR checks that surface key performance metrics (LCP INP CLS).
• Youll embed OpenTelemetry standards and extend data pipelines that ingest billions of real-user events every day.
• Youll partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure low-overhead metric collection shipping reusable libraries CLIs and tools.
• Youll launch no-merge-if-slower checks that statistically flag or block regressions with developer-friendly diff reports.
• Youll run end-to-end investigations to profile reproduce and eliminate systemic bottlenecks using Chrome DevTools Lighthouse and similar tools.
• Youll mine real-user and synthetic data to surface high-ROI opportunities for fixes and improvements in the monitoring tools.

Youre probably a match if

• JavaScript frontend expertise proven experience designing building and shipping rich JS/TypeScript React interfaces.
• Full-stack fluency comfortable diving into Node-based services and tools data pipelines and modern CI/CD workflows
• Data-driven mindset balance intuition with evidence design statistically sound experiments and let numbers guide your decisions.
• Clear communicator transform a flame-graph or p95 spike into an engaging narrative for engineers PMs execs and other stakeholders.
• Stakeholder influence adept at working across multiple org levels aligning priorities and driving action in product platform and leadership circles.

Nice to haves:

• Deep web-performance knowledge expert understanding of rendering pipelines main-thread bottlenecks network protocols and the latest performance APIs.
• Large-scale observability & RUM experience hands-on with Real User Monitoring OpenTelemetry Datadog Looker Mode or similar systems processing millions of events per minute.
• Strong TypeScript chops proficiency crafting robust typed code across both client and server.

About the team

Our ambition hasnt changed since day one: make Canva the fastest graphic design platform on the planet. As a Senior Engineer in the Performance Monitoring team youll lead the chargebuilding tools shaping culture and guiding engineering practices so that brilliant performance is the default not a nice-to-have. Make

Whats in it for you

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but youll 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.

Heres a taste of whats on offer:

• 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

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Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1