Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!

Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, London is our HQ for Europe, with all kinds of teams based here, plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. You'll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house, amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Lead a team dedicated to building, scaling, and enhancing systems that improve our ability to detect and response to security threats.

• Act as a technical leader, using engineering expertise to guide project direction, and execution.

• Coach and mentor team members to support their growth and capability.

• Ensure detection, logging, and automation systems remain top-tier within a polyglot cloud-native environment across a variety of tech stacks.

• Balance delivering technical outcomes with cultivating a high-performing, collaborative team culture globally.

• Collaborate closely with members across the Detection & Response (D&R) team, the wider security group and product engineering teams.

You're probably a match if

• You have a strong engineering background with proven experience driving technical outcomes that strengthen detection and response capabilities in a high paced, global environment.

• You bring hands-on experience in incident response, detection engineering, logging and alerting pipelines, and custom security automations.

• You have experience delivering and maintaining detection and response capabilities in cloud-native environments (e.g. AWS, GCP).

• You can showcase the ability to balance people leadership with technical decision-making, including guiding teams through complex projects and necessary trade-offs, whilst continuing to support each individuals' growth goals.

• You possess strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working cross-functionally with security, engineering, and product teams.

Beneficial Experience (not required, but helpful)

• Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and containerized environments

• Sound knowledge of forensic fundamentals and investigation techniques

• Background of sustained success in high growth startup environment

About the team

The Security Group is responsible for protecting Canva systems and data from information security threats. Our teams work together, and with other groups, to deliver preventive and detective controls and processes that reduce security risk. The group runs programs across Enterprise Security, Application Security, Risk Management, and Threat Detection and Response domains.

The Detection and Response group are responsible for leading Canva’s understanding of the threats that we face, continuously improving our ability to detect relevant actions of threat actors, and leading the company’s response to any potential intrusions.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• 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

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.