The Senior Engineering Manager will lead two teams—Security Platform Engineering and Security Development—within Canva's Security Group. This role is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of secure software platforms that empower engineers to build securely and efficiently, while reducing overall security risk across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Managing two small teams of software engineers who design and implement software to reduce risk.
- Owning the strategy and roadmap for both teams, balancing security and developer experience to build an experience that allows Canvanauts to move quickly, while having secure guardrails in place.
- Coach and develop engineers by providing regular, practical feedback to help them reach their personal growth goals.
- Own the team’s development methodology including sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives resulting in a high-performing team.
- Driving adoption of our systems internally across Canva engineering teams, championing the benefits of what we build.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in directly managing a high-performing team, guided by company or specialty missions, and goals.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals; be able to hold court with principal-level engineers and significantly contribute to design documents and complex software architecture.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with software engineering, SRE/DevOps, and compliance teams to embed security into developer workflows.
- You’re experienced with languages such as Golang, Java, Rust or similar.
- Experience in building and operating cloud-based services.
Nice to Have
- Experience in a security domain (application sandboxing, encryption, vulnerability scanning, etc) is a strong plus.
- An understanding of the security products industry, and security risk. You know the security market, and can evaluate needs against existing security tools and products that meet product needs & identify areas where we should challenge the status quo.
- Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform, Helm, K8s, or similar.
- Experience working with CI/CD systems and defining integration pipelines.
Technical Stack
Golang, Java, Rust, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems
Team & Environment
Lead two small teams: Security Platform Engineering and Security Development teams within the Security Group.
Work Mode
Remote across ANZ
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