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Senior Backend Software Engineer @Canva

[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer @Canva

Mar 28, 2025 - Canva is hiring a remote Senior Backend Software Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Australia.

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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

As a core contributor of the Security Platform Engineering (SPE) team, you will:

  • Directly contribute to the development and adoption of security platform features.
  • Play a vital role in building high consequence security features in collaboration with other platform teams at Canva.
  • Contribute to the design and development of security platform features.
  • Drive adoption of security platform features by collaborating with other teams across Canva.
  • Ensure the right security problems are being solved.

Role 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals; 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).

Requirements

  • 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 support you personally.

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Senior Backend Software Engineer @Canva
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Job Type full-time
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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