Engineering Manager (Infra) - AI Reliability (Sydney based) at Canva

Canva

Sydney, au·2h ago

Mid LevelFull-timeAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDAI

Salary Range

$69,360 - $93,840 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for an AI Infrastructure Engineer to join Canva's CORE (Canva Original Research & Exploration) team. This role involves building world-class AI infrastructure to support a large research team at the forefront of creative AI.

Key Responsibilities

→Building world-class AI infrastructure to support a 100+ person research team
→Designing and scaling multi-cloud systems for high-performance model training and inference
→Partnering with AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, and GCore to optimize GPU compute environments
→Enhancing CI/CD pipelines and developer velocity within AI platform teams
→Improving monitoring, alerting, and system observability for AI workloads
→Driving alignment in DevOps best practices across engineering teams
→Leading a high-impact engineering team in a fast-paced environment

Requirements

✓Experience leading DevOps or infrastructure teams, preferably in AI or high-performance computing
✓Working closely with AI researchers to enable experimentation and model training at scale
✓Building infrastructure that prioritizes research velocity and reliability
✓Experience with AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, IAM) and multi-cloud environments
✓Working with Kubernetes, SLURM, or similar distributed training infrastructure
✓Fluency in infrastructure as code tools like Terraform
✓Understanding of AI model lifecycle and supporting R&D at scale
✓Strong grasp of containerization, Linux fundamentals, and cloud networking
✓Collaborative, curious, and passionate about enabling others