[Hiring] Backend Software Engineer - Security Platform Engineering @Canva
Apr 02, 2025 - Canva is hiring a remote Backend Software Engineer - Security Platform Engineering. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Australia.
Role Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. This will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
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
- Threat Detection and Response
The Security Platform Engineering team takes charge for solving security-specific problems, using security domain expertise to unblock engineering to work on Canva-differentiating features. Our vision is to empower every engineer to build secure code with ease, through establishing a suite of paved roads for engineers to consume.
Role Responsibilities:
- Design and implement security platform features that enable Canva’s teams to move safely and quickly
- Owning the full lifecycle of features, from design docs and stakeholder alignment through implementation, testing, rollout, and maintenance
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and effectively advocate for engineering needs to non-technical stakeholders within the group
- Model initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions
- Identify opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new ideas and improvements that help achieve our goals
- Champion adoption of security platform features across Canva’s engineering teams
Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in one or more programming languages (Java/Rust)
- Motivated by designing and building platform features within the security domain
- Extensive experience in developing clean, readable, and maintainable code
- Comfortable with computer science and engineering fundamentals such as concurrency and data structures
- Experience improving testing frameworks and strategies, e.g. unit testing, system testing, and integration testing
Requirements
- Experience in a security domain (application sandboxing, encryption, authN/Z, etc.) is a plus
- 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 cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
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
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
Location
Australia
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 02, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Australia |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
