Senior Engineering Manager – Security Platform Engineering
Canva
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Australia
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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
- 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.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineering fundamentalsGolangJavaRustcloud-based servicesapplication sandboxingencryptionvulnerability scanningCI/CD systemsintegration pipelines
Soft Skills
team managementcoachingproviding feedbackcross-functional collaborationstrategic planningbalancing security and developer experiencehigh-performance team developmentcommunicationchampioning benefitspersonal growth development