Application Security Engineering Manager

**Canva’s Commitment and Mission** At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 75 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 2,800 peopleand the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of. Join us and design your future. **About Security Engineering Managers** At Canva, we’re all constantly striving towards our Crazy Big Goals As the features and services of our product suite evolve, we’re setting some large and ambitious goals. We need to be able to ship robust and secure features without sacrificing speed and scale of delivery, which is where our Security Engineering Managers come in. As an Application Security Engineering Manager, it is your mission to lead talented security engineers that are delivering secure products and features, and making security the easiest path for software engineers to follow. You will support your teams to solve complex security problems at scale, and help them meet their goals and objectives and help make complex security problems simple. **About the Security Group** 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 Identity and Access Management, Application Security, Risk Management, and Threat Detection and Response domains. **What you’ll be doing **: -Support a security-first engineering culture by making the optimally secure solution the easiest one for software engineering teams to use -Drive technical decision making support to your team in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment -Foster a culture of communication, bridging the communication gap between teams, groups, and company leaders -Invest in working with engineers on growth and development opportunities to help further their skillset and grow into new roles, with an ability to deliver relevant and timely feedback (positive & constructive) to help them to continuously improve and learn -Be heavily involved in hiring; build and grow high-performing and highly engaged teams of world-class engineers by attracting, interviewing, and selecting talent for your group -Coordinating and communicating across various specialties and parts of the business to understand the impact and feasibility of strategy goals within the group -Drive delivery of large, cross team and cross group initiatives and projects from ideation to completion. **What you'll bring**: Previously worked in high-performing and collaborative teams where everyone is able to share their best ideas and be their best selves -Previous experience as a Software or Security Engineer - in tune with software engineering fundamentals and security first principles -Subject matter expertise in Application Security and Vulnerability Management -Previous experience in cloud-based environments (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) with a working knowledge of broad infrastructure functions - CI/CD pipelines, automation, site reliability etc. -Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with the ability to work with a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds, with different expertise, and with different professional and personal needs -Experience making careful engineering tradeoffs, particularly around "Build vs Buy", evaluating potential third party systems to partner with, and managing and working with vendors to meet Canva's business needs -Strong customer focus to understand the use cases and requirements of internal stakeholders, and identify opportunities to empower them to do their best work -Be capable of leading by example - promoting Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and engineering values. cw1 li-remote **Working at Canva** Our culture is unlike anywhere else and we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life. Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, our benefits for permanent Canvanauts include: - Equity packages for you to truly be a part of the Canva journey. - We have a hybrid work model (in-office & from home), so while our offices are always open to you, we aim to come together for 8 days a year at minimum - balancing flexibility and connection - Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional develop