Security Engineering Manager Detection & Response
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hiya gday mabuhay kia ora 你好 hallo vítejte!
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
The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney Australia London is our HQ for Europe with all kinds of teams based here plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. Youll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.
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.
At the moment this role is focused on:
Lead a team dedicated to building scaling and enhancing systems that improve our ability to detect and response to security threats.
Act as a technical leader using engineering expertise to guide project direction and execution.
Coach and mentor team members to support their growth and capability.
Ensure detection logging and automation systems remain top-tier within a polyglot cloud-native environment across a variety of tech stacks.
Balance delivering technical outcomes with cultivating a high-performing collaborative team culture globally.
Collaborate closely with members across the Detection & Response (D&R) team the wider security group and product engineering teams.
Youre probably a match if
You have a strong engineering background with proven experience driving technical outcomes that strengthen detection and response capabilities in a high paced global environment.
You bring hands-on experience in incident response detection engineering logging and alerting pipelines and custom security automations.
You have experience delivering and maintaining detection and response capabilities in cloud-native environments (e.g. AWS GCP).
You can showcase the ability to balance people leadership with technical decision-making including guiding teams through complex projects and necessary trade-offs whilst continuing to support each individuals growth goals.
You possess strong communication and collaboration skills with experience working cross-functionally with security engineering and product teams.
Beneficial Experience (not required but helpful)
Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and containerized environments
Sound knowledge of forensic fundamentals and investigation techniques
Background of sustained success in high growth startup environment
About the team
The Security Group is responsible for protecting Canva systems and data from information security threats. Our teams work together and with other groups to deliver preventive and detective controls and processes that reduce security risk. The group runs programs across Enterprise Security Application Security Risk Management and Threat Detection and Response domains.
The Detection and Response group are responsible for leading Canvas understanding of the threats that we face continuously improving our ability to detect relevant actions of threat actors and leading the companys response to any potential intrusions.
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 range 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
Check out for more info.
Other stuff to know
We 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
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hiya gday mabuhay kia ora 你好 hallo vítejte!
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
The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney Australia London is our HQ for Europe with all kinds of teams based here plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. Youll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.
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.
At the moment this role is focused on:
Lead a team dedicated to building scaling and enhancing systems that improve our ability to detect and response to security threats.
Act as a technical leader using engineering expertise to guide project direction and execution.
Coach and mentor team members to support their growth and capability.
Ensure detection logging and automation systems remain top-tier within a polyglot cloud-native environment across a variety of tech stacks.
Balance delivering technical outcomes with cultivating a high-performing collaborative team culture globally.
Collaborate closely with members across the Detection & Response (D&R) team the wider security group and product engineering teams.
Youre probably a match if
You have a strong engineering background with proven experience driving technical outcomes that strengthen detection and response capabilities in a high paced global environment.
You bring hands-on experience in incident response detection engineering logging and alerting pipelines and custom security automations.
You have experience delivering and maintaining detection and response capabilities in cloud-native environments (e.g. AWS GCP).
You can showcase the ability to balance people leadership with technical decision-making including guiding teams through complex projects and necessary trade-offs whilst continuing to support each individuals growth goals.
You possess strong communication and collaboration skills with experience working cross-functionally with security engineering and product teams.
Beneficial Experience (not required but helpful)
Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and containerized environments
Sound knowledge of forensic fundamentals and investigation techniques
Background of sustained success in high growth startup environment
About the team
The Security Group is responsible for protecting Canva systems and data from information security threats. Our teams work together and with other groups to deliver preventive and detective controls and processes that reduce security risk. The group runs programs across Enterprise Security Application Security Risk Management and Threat Detection and Response domains.
The Detection and Response group are responsible for leading Canvas understanding of the threats that we face continuously improving our ability to detect relevant actions of threat actors and leading the companys response to any potential intrusions.
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 range 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
Check out for more info.
Other stuff to know
We 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
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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