Senior Backend Software Engineer - Security Platform Engineering

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Cyber Security

Job Summary

Job Description

Canva's Security Platform Engineering (SPE) team seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build and drive adoption of high-security features. You'll contribute to the full feature lifecycle, from design and stakeholder alignment to implementation, testing, and maintenance. Collaboration with other engineering teams is crucial to championing security platform adoption. Responsibilities include inputting into team strategy, ensuring the right security problems are solved, supporting services through on-call and run book creation, and identifying opportunities for cross-team collaboration. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years' experience maintaining cloud-based platform services with a strong focus on reliability and security, proficiency in programming languages (with a contribution to design and implementation), and solid software engineering fundamentals.
Must have:
  • 5-8 years experience in cloud-based platform services
  • Proficient in one or more programming languages
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Experience securing or building on cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Contribute to design and implementation of features
Good to have:
  • Experience in security domains (application sandboxing, encryption, authN/Z)
  • Rust, Java, or similar programming experience
  • Experience with Terraform, Helm, K8s
  • Linux security fundamentals (cgroups, namespaces, seccomp)
Perks:
  • Equity packages
  • Inclusive parental leave policy
  • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance
  • Flexible leave options

Job Details

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!

Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

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.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

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.

As a core contributor of this team, you will be 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.

The Security Platform Engineering team is small (3-5 people). As a senior engineer on this team, you will directly contribute to the design and development of security platform features. You will also directly drive adoption of security platform features by collaborating with other teams across Canva. You will have a direct role in ensuring the right security problems are being solved.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Directly input into vision-setting, strategy and planning for the team
  • Own the full lifecycle of features, from design docs and stakeholder alignment through implementation, testing, rollout, and maintenance
  • Champion adoption of security platform features across Canva’s engineering teams
  • Share learnings and key knowledge with the wider security group
  • Support services through on-call, building run books, running tabletop exercises, etc
  • Engage with stakeholder teams to anticipate future security engineering needs
  • Identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new ideas and improvements that help achieve our goals

Required Experience:

  • Experience (5-8 years+) in maintaining Cloud-based platform services where reliability and security are core goals
  • Proficient in one or more programming languages, and can directly contribute to the design and implementation of features (you will be programming)
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals; be able to hold court with principal-level engineers and significantly contribute to design documents and complex software architecture
  • Comfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals: concurrency, data structures
  • Experience securing or building on on cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).

Nice to have:

  • Experience in a security domain (application sandboxing, encryption, authN/Z, etc) is a plus
  • Programming experience in Rust, Java, or similar
  • Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform, Helm, K8s, or similar
  • Experience with Linux security fundamentals such as cgroups, namespaces, seccomp, etc

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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