Senior Security Engineer - Trust & Safety, remote across ANZ
Senior Security Engineer - Trust & Safety, remote across ANZ
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Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hey hello hiya gday mabuhay kia ora hallo vtejte!
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and youre probably keen to find out whats on offer so well get straight to the point.
Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if youre near one) at home or a bit of both its up to you.
What youd be doing in this role
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.
Lead proactive investigations into account takeovers coordinated account abuse bot activity and emerging threats targeting account integrity.
Collaborate on defining and implement metrics (e.g. ATO rates detection efficacy false positives) that help quantify risk posture and guide abuse mitigation strategies.
Develop threat detection alerts anomaly signals and logging strategies to enable early abuse identification.
Collaborate across engineering product and operations to shape end-to-end mitigations and recommend scalable controls.
Partner with analytics engineers to ensure threat metrics are reliable visible and segment-able across user tiers and abuse methods.
Drive post-incident reviews support threat modeling for new features and maintain knowledge bases for common and novel attack vectors.
Contribute to T&S tooling and platform development for fraud/abuse detection and mitigation.
Youre probably a match if
You have 5 years of experience in security engineering abuse prevention or Trust & Safety with a proven record of impact.
You demonstrate the ability to conduct deep-dive investigations and distill complex threat findings into clear stakeholder-aligned insights.
You are familiar with product telemetry detection signals and the design of abuse-resilient systems.
You are comfortable writing and reviewing code in languages such as Python Java or equivalent.
You exercise strong judgment and autonomy in navigating uncertainty with a track record of influencing strategic decisions through security investigations.
You bring strong technical skills in SQL log analysis metrics definition and basic statistical reasoning.
You may have bonus experience working closely with data scientists analytics engineers or in fraud/risk analytics contexts.
You have hands-on experience using AI in your work to drive greater impact
About the team
The Trust & Safety (T&S) Group vision is to make Canva the worlds most trusted company for safe design. To safeguard our community our T&S engineering teams build technologies to protect user safety (including but not limited to their account content data and privacy) and to prevent detect and mitigate abuse and fraud that could compromise the trust people have in Canva such as unacceptable content bots account takeovers and other abuse vectors.
As a Senior Security Engineer focused on Account Integrity and Abuse Intelligence youll lead investigations design detection strategies and build scalable data-driven defenses against evolving threats. Youll work at the intersection of security engineering abuse analytics and product trust helping Canva stay one step ahead of attackers.
This role is ideal for someone who combines deep security expertise with strong analytical thinking skills capable of both building signals and surfacing the insights that inform strategic controls.
Whats in it for you
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Heres a taste of whats on offer:
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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Other stuff to know
We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience - youll tackle interactive real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we some interviews you may also be asked to solve a problem using an AI tool to show how you approach challenges with tech by your side. Your recruitment partner will walk you through what to make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture.
When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above - we still want to hear from you!
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Key Skills
- Databases
- Embedded Software
- IDS
- System Design
- C/C++
- Military Experience
- Risk Analysis
- Systems Engineering
- Waterfall
- Requirements Management
- OSHA
- EHS
