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the team redefining how the world experiences design. 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. 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. Internal Systems Security team (ISS) helps secure our internal endpoints, networks, systems and data, used by every Canvanaut. We build and run a number of services that help run our device posture setup, secure credentials and secure our SaaS applications at scale. Additionally we partner with teams like IT, Sales and Customer Support to help build security into their roadmaps early on.
The team has to strictly balance security and user experience to make pragmatic tradeoffs every day, especially as work accelerates with AI tooling. As a result of this we will be assessing candidates' AI coding, security review and System Design skills during our interview process. Role
Responsibilities: Managing a team of security engineers who do a mixture of threat modelling, security tool rollouts, building internal security services and partnering with other teams on security strategy. Owning the strategy for internal security at Canva, balancing security, compliance 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 ways of work including sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives resulting in a high-performing team Working collaboratively with other partner groups such as IT, Sales, Customer Support and others to build security improvements that scales beyond our team. Driving adoption of our systems internally, championing the
