Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Canva's Security Platform Engineering team as a Senior Engineer and contribute to the development and adoption of high-security features. You will play a vital role in building and implementing security platform features, collaborating with other platform teams. The team is small (3-5 people), and you will directly contribute to design, development, and adoption of security features. Canva offers flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits to support your well-being and success. The role involves a full lifecycle ownership of features, from design to maintenance, and requires strong software engineering fundamentals and cloud-based platform experience. Canva is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Requirements

• 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 cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

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

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

Benefits

• 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