Remote Senior Security Engineer - Incident Response

Description:

• Join the team redefining how the world experiences design at Canva.
• The role is based in the Canva London campus, which features several buildings around Hoxton Square in Shoreditch.
• The position involves leading incident response coordination and acting as an escalation point for security incidents across Canva's cloud-native infrastructure, including participation in the on-call roster.
• Responsibilities include monitoring and investigating security threats across AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments, proactively hunting for anomalous behavior and potential intrusions.
• The role requires building and maintaining detection rules, automation workflows, and response playbooks using detection-as-code methodologies.
• You will develop tools and solutions for security incident alerting, management, and communication to prevent incident recurrence.
• Maintaining comprehensive incident response documentation, leading post-incident reviews, and producing detailed incident reports are also key tasks.
• The position involves championing security best practices across secure development, network security, and security operations.

Requirements:

• You must have demonstrable experience in incident response, security operations, and coordinating security events from detection through resolution.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security architectures, attack techniques, and hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is required.
• Extensive experience with endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms for investigations, analysis, and response actions is necessary.
• An investigative mindset with the ability to leverage OSINT techniques and solve ambiguous security problems with elegant solutions is essential.
• You should excel at documentation, communication, and stakeholder management while effectively prioritizing multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Understanding the role of security within the organization and applying risk-based decision making to security operations is crucial.
• Comfort working with Linux, macOS, and modern security tooling is required.

Benefits:

• Canva offers equity packages to ensure that the success of the company is shared with its employees.
• An inclusive parental leave policy is provided to support all parents and carers.
• Employees receive an annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support their wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more.
• Flexible leave options are available to empower employees to take time to recharge and support their personal needs.