[Remote] Principal Partner Engineer — Ecosystem
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Canva is a leading company in the computer software industry, seeking a Principal Partner Engineer for their Ecosystem team. In this role, you will drive decisions across partners and engineering, set technical direction for external platforms, and shape strategic partner engagements, all while ensuring coherence in product-line engineering across various surfaces.
Responsibilities
- Drive decisions and alignment across Partners and Canva engineering
- Set technical direction for Canva's external platform surface
- Ground partner conversations in working code
- Drive product-line engineering across our external platform surfaces
- Carry the platform direction outward early
- Shape strategic partner and customer engagements
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with several of those in roles operating at the seam between partner engineering, platform engineering, and product
- Built developer platforms, not just evangelised them. Shipped code in production on platforms used by external developers
- Move fluidly between a product roadmap conversation, a system design discussion, and a partner negotiation, and bring each one forward
- Bring a prototype or sample code to a hard conversation. Don't oversell what's doable, and don't overbuild what isn't needed
- Technically deep on the modern AI platform stack. Have real opinions on MCP, tool-use, agentic API design, and the tradeoffs between them
- Communicate directly. Resolve misalignments by writing clearly
- Worked inside product stacks that are heterogeneous and move fast. Know how to orient yourself quickly in a codebase you didn't write
- Raise the technical bar across Ecosystem engineering by sharing knowledge, feedback and bringing others into partner facing wins
- Hands-on experience shipping or integrating with MCP (Anthropic, OpenAI, Copilot, or Gemini flavours)
- Strong TypeScript, comfortable across front-end (React) and server-side JavaScript, and the ability to read a Java backend even if you don't want to write one
- A track record of turning ambiguous partner signal into crisp engineering decisions that Product and Engineering acted on
Benefits
- Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally
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