Canva is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead two teams—Security Platform Engineering and Security Development—within the Security Group. In this role, you will set strategy and drive roadmaps that reduce security risk while enabling engineers to build secure code efficiently, focusing on developer experience and strong security guardrails.
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
- K8s
- 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
Canva is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.
