Golang Job: Staff Observability Engineer (SRE) - open to remot

What you'll do (Responsibilities)

• As a technical lead, you will guide the design and implementation of some of our major projects like scaling our Logging, Metrics and Tracing tooling.
• Help identify gaps in Observability tooling at Canva and help take it to the next level.
• Be proactive in modernising our Observability tooling and participate in brainstorming and POC’ing to determine how we can improve our existing systems
• Become an authority in the area of Observability and evangelise the benefits of accurate instrumentation throughout the organisation
• Help build new features into our Logging and Alerting pipelines to ensure that people are getting notifications for errors that are related to their domains
• Help develop solutions to tackle difficult problems such as how to deal with high-cardinality metrics which we can’t solve with our existing tooling
• Guide and mentor other people on the team and help them grow their skills and knowledge

Required skills & experience

• Comfortable and happy to code in Python, Java or Golang
• Deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles
• Experience building and running monitoring infrastructure at a large scale. For example, Terabyte-scale Elasticsearch clusters, Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana, etc
• Experience working with and monitoring microservice architectures in large distributed cloud environments (ideally AWS).
• Experience with Observability tooling – having proficiency with tools like Datadog, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Loggly, Sentry, or similar
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, we’re a Terraform shop, but strong experience with other IaC tools will do the trick
• The ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas
• This role requires a lot of documentation and internal team members alignment; therefore strong written and verbal communication skills are required

Not essential; but helpful experience!

• Experience writing application code in Java since we also maintain the metrics, tracing and logging java libraries.
• Experience building and running monitoring infrastructure on a large scale. For example, Terabyte-scale Elasticsearch clusters, Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana, etc
• Experience with OpenTelemetry or writing code in Golang since we are adopting OpenTelemetry in a lot of the tooling we provide.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus stock options via our ESOP plan
• Flexible daily working hours, we value work-life balance
• Breakfast and lunch prepared by our wonderful Vibe team
• Onsite-Gym and Yoga Membership
• End-of-Trip Facilities: Bicycle parking and showers
• Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
• Pet-friendly offices
• Internal Coaches and an Employee Wellness Program
• Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
• Relocation budget for interstate or overseas individuals (including visa sponsorship)

• Equity packages for you to truly be a part of the Canva journey.

• We have a hybrid work model (in-office & from home), with our offices are always open to you balancing flexibility and connection

• Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.

• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.

• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development.. because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.

• Virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs and Fitness & Meditation Classes.

• Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations, Force for Good leave (3 paid volunteering days) and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.