Staff Software Engineer, Canvas Core

ABOUT THE TEAM The Canvas Core team builds and maintains the foundational platform that powers Mural’s visual thinking experience. This includes the infinite canvas, key editor components, document editing behaviors, asset management, real-time collaboration, and the systems that enable fast, reliable, and intuitive interaction on the canvas. We’re also responsible for the Mural UI, the real-time message protocol that enables seamless remote collaboration, and the developer-friendly APIs that internal teams use to build features like diagramming, workshops, presentations, integrations, and AI-enabled product capabilities. Our mission is to ensure the Mural editor is fast, reliable, intuitive, and easy to build on. We prioritize performance, simplicity, developer experience, and platform quality, enabling teams across the company to ship quickly and safely on top of Canvas Core. YOUR MISSION As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the Canvas platform and ensuring the Mural editor is reliable, high-performing, and intuitive for our users. You’ll help design and maintain the systems that power real-time collaboration, shared document editing, spatial interactions, rendering and interaction performance, asset management, developer APIs, and AI-enabled product capabilities across the Mural editor. Your role will be to reduce platfor