About the group/team

The Security Group is responsible for protecting Canva systems and data from information security threats. The group runs programs across Application Security, Risk Management, Enterprise Security, and Threat Detection and Response domains. Our teams work together, and with other groups, to deliver preventive and detective controls and processes that reduce security risk.

This role will be responsible for directly leading two teams; Security Platform Engineering and Security Development.

The Security Platform Engineering team takes charge for solving security-specific problems, using security domain expertise to unblock engineering to work on Canva-differentiating features. Our vision is to empower every engineer to build secure code with ease, through establishing a suite of paved roads for engineers to consume. The team is currently focused on building sandbox capabilities, workload isolation, BYOK and more.

The Security Development team builds and runs software that accelerates and strengthens the work of the wider Security Group. Beyond maintaining existing platforms, the team builds net-new capabilities that enable the security team to move faster, make better decisions, and reduce security risk across Canva. This includes things like vulnerability scanning and incident response tooling.

Role Responsibilities:

• Managing two small teams of software engineers who design and implement software to reduce risk.

• Owning the strategy and roadmap for both teams, balancing security and developer experience to build an experience that allows Canvanauts to move quickly, while having secure guardrails in place.

• Coach and develop engineers by providing regular, practical feedback to help them reach their personal growth goals

• Own the team’s development methodology including sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives resulting in a high-performing team

• Driving adoption of our systems internally across Canva engineering teams, championing the benefits of what we build.

Required Experience

• Experience in directly managing a high-performing team, guided by company or specialty missions, and goals

• Strong software engineering fundamentals; be able to hold court with principal-level engineers and significantly contribute to design documents and complex software architecture

• Experience partnering cross-functionally with software engineering, SRE/DevOps, and compliance teams to embed security into developer workflows

• You’re experienced with languages such as Golang, Java, Rust or similar

• Experience in building and operating cloud-based services

Nice to Haves

• Experience in a security domain (application sandboxing, encryption, vulnerability scanning, etc) is a strong plus

• An understanding of the security products industry, and security risk. You know the security market, and can evaluate needs against existing security tools and products that meet product needs & identify areas where we should challenge the status quo.

• Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform, Helm, K8s, or similar.

• Experience working with CI/CD systems and defining integration pipelines.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• 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

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.