Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Security Platform Engineering team as Engineering Manager and lead a small, high-performing team in building and implementing crucial security features. You will drive the team's vision, strategy, and roadmap, setting impactful goals while directly contributing to design and implementation. This role requires strong leadership, coaching, and software engineering skills. You'll collaborate with various teams, champion feature adoption, and measure the team's impact. The opportunity involves working on high-consequence security domains and building operational security platform features.

Requirements

• Experience in directly managing a high-performing team, guided by company or specialty missions, and goals
• Strong coaching and interpersonal skills, and able to engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Strong software engineering fundamentals; be able to hold court with principal-level engineers and significantly contribute to design documents and complex software architecture
• Proficient in one or more programming languages, and can directly contribute to the design and implementation of features (you will be programming)

Responsibilities

• Drive vision-setting, strategy and planning for the team, in collaboration with other key teams in Security and beyond; you will be accountable for the technical strategy and roadmap
• Set clear and impactful goals for the team; balancing product needs against the long-term health and cost of your services
• Champion adoption of security platform features across Canva’s engineering teams
• Directly contribute to design and implementation of features
• Continuously engage with stakeholder teams to anticipate future needs
• Measure and communicate the impact of your teams' work to the wider company
• Build and maintain a healthy team culture; ensure that our engineering values are upheld, fostering an open, pragmatic and supportive culture that encourages healthy collaboration
• Invest in personal growth and career development of engineering talent within the team

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Experience securing or building on on cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)