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Canva Senior Security Engineer - Incident Response | SmartRecruiters Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Senior Security Engineer - Incident Response Full-time Recruitment type: Permanent Job Description Join
the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hiya, 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 The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, London is our HQ for Europe, with all kinds of teams based here, plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. You'll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house, amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work. 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. At the moment, this role is focused on: Leading incident response coordination and acting as escalation point for security incidents across Canva's cloud-native infrastructure, including participation in the on-call roster Monitoring and investigating security threats across AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments, proactively hunting for anomalous behavior and potential intrusions Building and maintaining detection rules, automation workflows, and response playbooks using detection-as-code methodologies Developing tools and solutions for security incident alerting, management, and communication that prevent incident recurrence Maintaining comprehensive incident response documentation, lead post-incident reviews, and produce detailed incident reports Championing security best practices across secure development, network security, and security operations You're probably a match if You have demonstrable experience in incident response, security operations, and coordinating security events from detection through resolution You possess strong knowledge of cloud security architectures, attack techniques, and hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) You've worked extensively with endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms for investigations, analysis, and response actions You have an investigative mindset with ability to leverage OSINT techniques and solve ambiguous security problems with elegant solutions You excel at documentation, communication, and stakeholder management while effectively prioritizing multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment You understand