Senior Backend Engineer - Video Effects

Company Description

About the Group/Team

We're the Video team within the Design Experience Supergroup, and we’re on a mission to empower every user to tell compelling visual stories through video. We build intuitive, powerful tools and rendering infrastructure that help users go from idea to impact—seamlessly. Together, we’re shaping the future of multimedia creation, and this role will be core to enabling innovation across Canva’s intelligent video editing experiences.

关于团队

我们是Design Experience Supergroup旗下的Video team，肩负着一项使命：赋能每一位用户通过视频讲述引人入胜的视觉故事。我们构建直观、强大的工具和渲染基础设施，帮助用户无缝地将想法转化为有影响力的作品。我们正共同塑造多媒体创作的未来，而这个职位将成为推动 Canva 智能视频编辑体验创新的核心力量。

Job Description

About the Role/Specialty

As a Backend Engineer in the Video Effects team, you'll build robust, scalable backend services to power our intelligent effects pipeline. While some multimedia exposure is helpful, this is a generalist backend role focused on building high-performance systems. You’ll work across effect asset management, backend tools, and content distribution services. Your work will directly enable creators to unlock a new generation of AI-powered design tools.

关于岗位

作为视频特效团队的后端工程师，你将负责构建稳定高效、可扩展的后端服务，为我们的智能特效管线提供核心支撑。虽然具备一定的多媒体相关经验会是加分项，但这一职位更侧重于通用型后端开发，重点在于打造高性能系统。你将参与特效资产管理、后端工具开发以及内容分发服务的建设，确保整个创作流程顺畅高效。你的工作将直接赋能全球创作者，帮助他们通过新一代 AI 驱动的设计工具，释放无限创意。

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Build scalable backend services that support the effect creation and serving layer
• Design and maintain APIs for effect asset storage, retrieval, and metadata management
• Develop effect management tooling to support internal creators and product workflows
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and memory efficiency
• Collaborate across specialties to integrate services into Canva’s broader infrastructure
• Support the global distribution of effects with caching, delivery strategies, and observability
• Ensure systems are production-ready, fault-tolerant, and easy to maintain

工作职责

• 构建可扩展的后台服务，支持效果的创建与分发
• 设计并维护效果资产的存储、获取及元数据管理相关的 API
• 开发内部工具，帮助内容创作者更高效地管理和应用视觉效果
• 优化系统的性能、可靠性和内存使用效率
• 与不同职能团队紧密合作，将服务整合进 Canva 更广泛的技术基础设施中
• 支持效果内容的全球分发，包括缓存策略、内容投放和可观测性设计
• 确保系统具备生产就绪度、容错能力，并易于维护和扩展

Qualifications

What we're looking for

We’re looking for a backend engineer with a passion for multimedia systems and deep expertise in performance-focused engineering. You’ll bring:

• Experience building and operating distributed systems or microservices at scale
• Strong programming skills in C++, Java, Go, or Python
• Solid understanding of backend architecture, caching, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with large-scale infrastructure and deployment systems
• Multimedia or video infrastructure experience is a bonus
• A collaborative, product-minded approach to engineering

任职要求

我们正在寻找一位热衷于系统性能优化的后台工程师。如果你对构建支撑数亿用户的高可用系统充满热情，那你将非常适合这个角色：

• 有构建并运营大规模分布式系统或微服务的经验
• 精通 C++、Java、Go 或 Python 等编程语言
• 对后台系统架构、缓存机制和性能调优有扎实理解
• 熟悉大规模基础设施及部署系统
• 如果具备多媒体或视频处理相关经验将是加分项
• 拥有良好的协作精神和以产品为导向的工程思维

Additional Information

What you will learn and develop at Canva

• Operate at scale—building infra used by millions globally
• Work on emerging product areas that blend creative tooling and ML-powered experiences
• Build expertise in performance, effect delivery, and distributed systems
• Grow within a supportive, high-impact backend infrastructure team

在这个岗位上，你将获得：

• 在全球数百万用户规模下构建和运营后台基础设施
• 深度参与结合创意工具与机器学习的新兴产品方向
• 打造在性能优化、效果分发及分布式系统设计方面的专业能力
• 在一个支持性强、影响力大的后台基础团队中不断成长与突破