Engineering Manager (BE) - Platform Engineering

About the Group/Team

The Security Group is responsible for protecting Canva systems and data from information security threats. The group runs programs across Identity and Access Management, 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. Security Platform Engineering (SPE) is a new team to develop, and drive adoption of high security consequence features into Canva’s platforms for all engineers at Canva to leverage.

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.

About the Role/Specialty
The Security Platform Engineering team is small (3-5 people). As the Engineering Manager of this team, you will be responsible for building a high-performing team aligned to the vision, while also directly contributing to the development and adoption of security platform features. You will play a vital role in building high consequence security features in collaboration with other platform teams at Canva. It will be your responsibility to ensure the right security problems are being solved, and work continues to be impactful to Canva’s mission.

What will you learn and how will you develop at Canva?

• The Security Platform Engineering team represents an exciting opportunity where security own and drive solutions in high-consequence security domains, i.e. we’re an operational security group. You will be a key part in this new strategy, helping to build and operate security platform features that few other companies have.
• We work with and across existing platform teams, which means owning the full solution end-to-end – from service implementation to infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to help build and define this operational model at Canva.