Senior Security Engineer - Platform Security
Core
Designing and developing tools, libraries, and services to secure Canva's compute, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure while leading threat modelling and security design reviews.
Role type
Senior Security Engineer (Platform Security)
Builds
Security tools, libraries, and services for platform engineering teams
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Infrastructure security design reviews, risk assessments, threat modelling, cloud platform security (AWS, Google Cloud), DevOps ecosystem auditing (CI/CD, IaC, orchestration), modern programming (Go, Python, Java), mentoring security engineers
Preferred skills
Building security tooling for containerised workloads, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms (Buildkite, Jenkins, ArgoCD), secrets management
Technologies
AWS, Google Cloud, Go, Python, Java, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Buildkite, Jenkins, ArgoCD
Responsibilities
Identify, introduce, and improve security controls across compute, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure; Advise infrastructure engineers on cloud platform security best practices and design patterns; Lead threat modelling code review exercises for new and complex architectures; Design and develop tools, libraries, and services that support engineers in building secure software; Evaluate new and emerging security technologies; Discover and triage vulnerabilities across the threat landscape; Assist in interviewing and hiring security engineers; Mentor and support the growth of colleagues
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities