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Canva

Senior Security Engineer – Detection & Response

Canva

. Deliver high-impact security engineering solutions across detection and platform engineering service streams .

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AnsibleAWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Deliver high-impact security engineering solutions across detection and platform engineering service streams
  • Design and implement detection capabilities, automate security workflows, and enhance security platform infrastructure
  • Lead incident response coordination and act as escalation point for security incidents across Canva's cloud-native infrastructure, including participation in on-call rotation
  • Investigate and triage security alerts, coordinating containment, eradication, and recovery activities across a range of security events
  • Lead and contribute to post-incident reviews, translating incident learnings into improved detections, playbooks, and response processes
  • Build and maintain automation workflows and response playbooks that streamline investigation, triage, and response, reducing analyst toil and improving mean-time-to-respond
  • Partner with CTI, Application Security, and Red Team to turn threat intelligence and emerging risks into practical detection and response outcomes
  • Develop and improve security response tooling and capabilities across areas including case management, automation, SOAR, SIEM, and forensics

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Demonstrable experience in incident response, DFIR, or security operations, with a proven track record coordinating security events from detection through resolution
  • Worked extensively with enterprise security platforms including SIEM (Elastic Security, Splunk, or similar), EDR (SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, or similar), and SOAR platforms
  • Investigative mindset with the ability to solve ambiguous security problems and make risk-based decisions under pressure
  • Working knowledge in at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud attack techniques
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible) and DevOps practices
  • Excel at documentation, communication, and stakeholder management during incidents
  • Proficient in scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, or similar)
  • Experience with advanced detection techniques: behavioural analytics, anomaly detection, GenAI workflows and GenAI harnesses

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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

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Hard Skills & Tools
incident responseDFIRsecurity operationsscriptingprogramming languagesbehavioural analyticsanomaly detectioninfrastructure-as-codeDevOps practicescloud attack techniques
Soft Skills
investigative mindsetrisk-based decision makingdocumentationcommunicationstakeholder management