Senior Security Engineer Detection & Response (remote across Australia)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey hello 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

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.

As a Senior Security Engineer you will deliver high-impact security engineering solutions across our detection and platform engineering service streams. You will design and implement detection capabilities automate security workflows and enhance our security platform infrastructure. Your work will directly strengthen Canvas security posture by enabling faster threat detection reducing analyst toil through automation and scaling our security operations capabilities.
We are not looking for someone who checks every single box were looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences.

• Leading incident response coordination and acting as escalation point for security incidents across Canvas cloud-native infrastructure including participation in the on-call rotation

• Investigating and triaging security alerts coordinating containment eradication and recovery activities across a range of security events

• Leading and contributing to post-incident reviews translating incident learnings into improved detections playbooks and response processes

• Building and maintaining automation workflows and response playbooks that streamline investigation triage and response reducing analyst toil and improving mean-time-to-respond

• Partnering with CTI Application Security and Red Team to turn threat intelligence and emerging risks into practical detection and response outcomes

• Developing and improving security response tooling and capabilities across areas including case management automation SOAR SIEM and forensics

Youre probably a match if 

• You have demonstrable experience in incident response DFIR or security operations with a proven track record coordinating security events from detection through resolution

• Youve worked extensively with enterprise security platforms including SIEM (Elastic Security Splunk or similar) EDR (SentinelOne CrowdStrike Microsoft Defender or similar) and SOAR platforms

• You have an investigative mindset with the ability to solve ambiguous security problems and make risk-based decisions under pressure

• You possess working knowledge in at least one of the major cloud providers (AWS GCP or Azure) and cloud attack techniques.

• You have working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible) and DevOps practices

• You excel at documentation communication and stakeholder management during incidents

• You are proficient in scripting and programming languages (Python Go or similar)

• You have experience with advanced detection techniques: behavioural analytics anomaly detection GenAI workflows and GenAI harnesses

Beneficial Experience (not required but helpful)

• Experience with Threat Hunting or Threat Intelligence

• Background in forensic acquisition and analysis including maintaining chain of custody

• Incident response in containerised and Kubernetes environments

• Publishing research in blogs or contributing to open-source security tools

About the team

The Detection & Response organisation protects Canva from security threats through detection investigation incident response and security operations. We operate at the intersection of security engineering and security operations building and improving the capabilities workflows and tools that enable Canva to identify investigate and respond to threats at scale.

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

Check out for more info.

Other stuff to know

We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. Were 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 expect.

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.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time