Associate Application Security Engineer (AppSec) - Open to remote across ANZ (copy) (copy)
Canva, Australia

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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. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

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.
About Application Security Engineers
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 Application Security Engineers come in.
As an Application Security Engineer, your primary objective is to safeguard Canva's products and features by proactively identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities. You play a crucial role in ensuring the security of our Community by providing guidance and support to engineering teams in identifying and resolving security issues as they arise.
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.
Role Responsibilities:

• Working with the team to develop and integrate robust systems that effectively identify, manage, and mitigate security risks across Canva's extensive threat landscape
• Discovery and triage of vulnerabilities across Canva’s threat landscape
• Creating tooling to support the detection and remediation of vulnerabilities in our products
• Advising engineers on system and application security best practices and design patterns
• Identifying, introducing, and improving security controls in all stages of the software development lifecycle

Required Experience:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with the ability to work with a diverse range of Canvanauts from different backgrounds, with different expertise, and with different professional and personal needs
• Knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities and appropriate remediation and mitigation strategies, including OWASP top 10
• Proficient with one or more modern program languages (Golang, Python or Java preferred)
• Experience in working in close proximity to software engineers outside the security speciality
• Ability to deliver project work in a timely manner while taking into consideration competing priorities.

Beneficial Experience (not required, but helpful):

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services and associated technologies and products within the AWS ecosystem, especially IAM and security-specific services
• Previous exposure to infrastructure as code (e.g Terraform)

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 stack 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 amp; carers • An annual Vibe amp; Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup amp; more • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
Other stuff to know
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