Senior Frontend Engineer (TypeScript) - Observability

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About the Team

The Observability Traces & Exceptions Team is responsible for operational insights inside Canva. Our goal is to provide our development team with world-class tools to view how their services are performing in production. We achieve this by combining industry-leading third-party solutions with our own in-house developed solutions.

We work across the entire stack maintaining our tracing TypeScript & Java libraries, our tracing infrastructure, error libraries and error handling guidelines to name just a few. As we scale all of these areas, we require more sophisticated solutions to ensure that Canva developers can continue to grow without compromising on reliability or availability.

What you'll do (Responsibilities):

• Deliver features, taking ownership of the entire lifecycle from design doc through to implementation and release.

• Help deliver monitoring of critical user flows through complete end to end tracing.

• 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.

• Be proactive and help improve trace instrumentation on the frontend to surface performance degradation in our frontend components.

• Help develop solutions to tackle difficult problems such as scaling our platforms to meet Canva's customer growth.

• Guide and mentor other people on the team and help them grow their skills and knowledge.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience in TypeScript is a must for this role.

• Experience in Java or Golang is a nice to have (must be happy to code in Java)

• Deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles

• Knowledge of Frontend performance metrics and web vitals.

• 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, 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 native code in Kotlin or Swift since we also maintain the tracing libraries for Android and iOS. 

• 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.

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• 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.   

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