Senior Backend Engineer - Video Effects - Remote

Overview

This role focuses on building high-throughput backend infrastructure for real-time video processing, ensuring performance, reliability, and responsiveness of multimedia features.

In Short

• Design and maintain scalable distributed systems for audio/video processing
• Build robust APIs and services to integrate ML models into real-time video features
• Optimise backend infrastructure for performance, reliability, and memory efficiency
• Develop caching and content delivery strategies for ML-generated media
• Manage and tune GPU clusters for efficient model serving and video transformation
• Ensure fault-tolerance and scalability across containerized media pipelines
• Collaborate closely with MLEs, product managers, and researchers
• Work with global teams to build integrated systems with Canva infrastructure

Requirements

• Experience building and operating scalable distributed systems and microservices
• Deep knowledge of high-throughput AV processing infrastructure
• Familiarity with GPU orchestration and model-serving pipelines
• Strong system design skills for real-time content delivery
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure and containerization
• A product-driven mindset focused on reliability and performance

Benefits

• Operate at scale, shipping infrastructure for millions of video creators
• Develop expertise in GPU workloads and AV system design
• Collaborate in a fast-paced, research-meets-product environment
• Influence Canva’s next generation of intelligent video creation tools