Principal Security Engineer, Remote Across Anz

Canva; Darwin; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design platform is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to address complex security challenges and design risk mitigation strategies. This role involves leadership and collaboration across teams to ensure security integrated within all processes. Candidates should have deep expertise in various security domains and experience leading security initiatives. The position offers equity packages, inclusive leave policies, and flexible work options.

Benefits

Equity packages

Inclusive parental leave policy

Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance

Flexible leave options

Qualifications

• Deep technical expertise across security domains.
• Proven track record solving security challenges.
• Experience partnering across teams to implement security.

Responsibilities

• Own and solve complex security challenges.
• Design and implement strategies to mitigate risks.
• Lead and mentor within the Security Group.

Skills

Technical expertise in application security

Technical expertise in enterprise security

Technical expertise in identity management

Technical expertise in detection & response

Experience in ambiguous security challenges

Experience in strategic and technical leadership

Knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, and SAML

Job description

Principal Security Engineer - Remote Across ANZ

2 days ago

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Company Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, ??, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll 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; we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What You'd Be Doing In This Role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On

• Owning and solving our most complex security challenges across the business.
• Designing and implementing scalable strategies to mitigate security risks at Canva scale.
• Partnering with teams across the company to identify unknown risks and build forward-thinking security solutions.
• Leading and mentoring across the Security Group to uplift technical capability and strategic thinking.
• Keeping us ahead of evolving threats through constant evaluation of new technologies, techniques, and controls.
• Strengthening our ability to detect and respond to emerging threat vectors in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

You're probably a match if you

• Have deep technical expertise across security domains like application security, enterprise security, identity, and detection & response.
• Have a proven track record solving broad, ambiguous security challenges in complex environments.
• Can balance strategic direction with hands‑on technical leadership and solution design.
• Have experience partnering across engineering, product, and business teams to drive security at scale.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment and are passionate about mentoring others.
• Bring working knowledge of standards such as OAuth, OIDC, and SAML.
• Take a proactive, systems‑level approach to eliminating whole classes of risk.

About The Group

The Security Group's mission is to protect our community, people, and company from online threats by making the most secure actions simple. 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, Enterprise Security and Threat Detection and Response domains. We partner deeply with product teams and platform engineers — building shared tooling, defining scalable processes, and helping Canva grow securely.

About The Role

We're looking for a Principal Security Engineer to play a pivotal role in driving strengthening Canva's security foundations and driving meaningful risk reduction across the business. This is a deeply technical and highly influential position, where you'll work closely with our security teams, and partner with teams across the company to identify our most critical risks, design scalable security solutions, and embed security into everything we do. You'll balance strategic leadership with deep hands‑on technical expertise across all aspects of Canva, including application security, enterprise security, identity, and detection & response. You will also be mentoring other engineers across the security group, and educating them as well as the business more broadly in all areas of security. As one of the most senior technical members of the security team, you'll help set the direction for security engineering at Canva, and shape how the group enables Canva's mission to empower the world to design, securely.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll 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.

Here's a Taste of What's 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 support you personally.

Other Stuff To Know

We see AI as a powerful amplifier of creativity and technology at Canva. We're evolving how we assess AI skills in our Technology hiring experience – you'll tackle interactive, real-time challenges that reflect the kind of work we do. In 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.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above – we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Seniority Level

Executive

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Information Technology

Industry

Software Development