What youll do (responsibilities):
- Drive visionsetting strategy and planning for the team in collaboration with other key teams in Security and beyond; you will be accountable for the technical strategy and roadmap
- Set clear and impactful goals for the team; balancing product needs against the longterm health and cost of your services
- Champion adoption of security platform features across Canvas engineering teams
- Directly contribute to design and implementation of features
- Continuously engage with stakeholder teams to anticipate future needs
- Measure and communicate the impact of your teams work to the wider company
- Build and maintain a healthy team culture; ensure that our engineering values are upheld fostering an open pragmatic and supportive culture that encourages healthy collaboration
- Invest in personal growth and career development of engineering talent within the team
What were looking for:
This is the ideal role for someone who is motivated by leading small empowered teams and helping engineers to grow through coaching but who also wants to stay handson through system design and contributing directly to technical delivery in a security domain.
MustHave;
- Experience in directly managing a highperforming team guided by company or specialty missions and goals
- Strong coaching and interpersonal skills and able to engage and motivate a team with diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Strong software engineering fundamentals; be able to hold court with principallevel engineers and significantly contribute to design documents and complex software architecture
- Proficient in one or more programming languages and can directly contribute to the design and implementation of features (you will be programming)
Nice to Have;
- 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
- Experience securing or building on on cloudbased environments (AWS Google Cloud Azure).
Additional Information :
What the candidate will learn and
how will they develop at Canva
- The Security Platform Engineering team represents an exciting opportunity where security own and drive solutions in highconsequence security domains i.e. were an operational security group. You will be a key part in this new strategy helping to build and operate security platform features that few other companies have.
- We work with and across existing platform teams which means owning the full solution endtoend from service implementation to infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to help build and define this operational model at Canva.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime