Senior Engineering Manager - Security Platform Engineering

This role is based in Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Coaching and developing engineers by providing regular feedback.
• Owning the team’s development methodology including sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Driving adoption of our systems internally across Canva engineering teams.

Required Experience:

• Experience in directly managing a high-performing team.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with software engineering, SRE/DevOps, and compliance teams.
• Proficiency in languages such as Golang, Java, Rust or similar.
• Experience in building and operating cloud-based services.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience in a security domain (application sandboxing, encryption, vulnerability scanning, etc).
• Understanding of the security products industry and security risk.
• Experience with infrastructure tools like Terraform, Helm, K8s, or similar.
• Experience working with CI/CD systems and defining integration pipelines.