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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Security Platform Engineering @Canva

[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer - Security Platform Engineering @Canva

Mar 30, 2025 - Canva is hiring a remote Senior Backend Software Engineer - Security Platform Engineering. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: 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 role will involve:

  • Directly input into vision-setting, strategy and planning for the team
  • Owning the full lifecycle of features, from design docs and stakeholder alignment through implementation, testing, rollout, and maintenance
  • Championing adoption of security platform features across Canva’s engineering teams
  • Sharing learnings and key knowledge with the wider security group
  • Supporting services through on-call, building run books, running tabletop exercises, etc.
  • Engaging with stakeholder teams to anticipate future security engineering needs
  • Identifying 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 supports you personally

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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Security Platform Engineering @Canva
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Australia
Job Type full-time
Posted Mar 30, 2025
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