Senior Security Engineer - Incident Response in London

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. 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:

The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, London is our HQ for Europe, with all kinds of teams based here, plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. You’ll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house, amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.

What you’d be doing in this role:

• Leading incident response coordination and acting as escalation point for security incidents across Canva’s cloud-native infrastructure, including participation in the on-call roster.
• Monitoring and investigating security threats across AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments, proactively hunting for anomalous behaviour and potential intrusions.
• Building and maintaining detection rules, automation workflows, and response playbooks using detection-as-code methodologies.
• Developing tools and solutions for security incident alerting, management, and communication that prevent incident recurrence.
• Maintaining comprehensive incident response documentation, leading post-incident reviews, and producing detailed incident reports.
• Championing security best practices across secure development, network security, and security operations.
• Contributing to strategic projects that enhance the organization’s overall security posture.

You’re probably a match if:

• You have demonstrable experience in incident response, security operations, and coordinating security events from detection through resolution.
• You possess strong knowledge of cloud security architectures, attack techniques, and hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• You’ve worked extensively with endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms for investigations, analysis, and response actions.
• You have an investigative mindset with ability to leverage OSINT techniques and solve ambiguous security problems with elegant solutions.
• You excel at documentation, communication, and stakeholder management while effectively prioritising multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• You understand the role of security within the organization and apply risk-based decision making to security operations.
• You’re comfortable working with Linux, macOS, and modern security tooling.

Beneficial experience (not required, but helpful):

• Background in forensic acquisition and analysis, including maintaining chain of custody.
• Incident response in containerized and Kubernetes environments.
• Ability to perform static and dynamic malware analysis.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, or similar).
• Experience with security automation platforms and SOAR tools.
• Familiarity with detection-as-code practices and version control workflows.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat intelligence platforms.

About the team:

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 Enterprise Security, Application Security, Risk Management, and Threat Detection and Response domains. The Detection and Response team leads Canva’s understanding of the threats we face, continuously improves our ability to detect relevant threat actor activity, and leads the company’s response to potential intrusions.

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 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.