Senior Analytics Engineer

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect.

This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. 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:

• Powering real-time threat detection by building resilient, high-throughput pipelines that turn massive, high-velocity security log streams into signals our detection and response capability can act on in near real time - so threats are surfaced and responded to faster.

• Building AI-ready data infrastructure on the semantic layer - designing clean, well-modelled, governed datasets in our Snowflake warehouse and semantic layer that act as a single, trustworthy source of truth for security metrics. This is the foundation that downstream analytics, board-level security reporting and AI-powered tooling are built on, so reliability and clear definitions matter enormously.

• Enabling security teams to make informed decisions with data - partnering with Security Engineers, Platform and Product to build data solutions that go beyond traditional BI dashboards, unlocking advanced use cases like UGC entitlement and access patterns, and giving teams the right insight at the right time to drive strategic decisions and incident response.

• Engineering at scale - implementing streaming and batch processing architectures that handle petabyte-scale security data while maintaining the query performance critical security workflows depend on.

• Championing reliability and efficiency through comprehensive monitoring, automated data quality checks, alerting on data SLAs, and cost-performance optimisation.

• Building leverage, including with AI - creating self-service capabilities so engineering teams can independently generate security insights, and using modern AI tooling to build data pipelines and ingestion tools faster, while bringing deep technical expertise to the complex security data problems that don't have an off-the-shelf answer.

You're probably a match if

• You're curious about the security domain and energised by cross-functional collaboration - you enjoy working with security engineers who think differently and solving problems.

• You're motivated by protecting our systems and users at scale. You want your work to enable faster threat response, smarter access controls, and more intuitive security tooling for engineering teams globally.

• You thrive on turning chaotic, high-velocity security data into rock-solid systems that keep millions of users secure.

• You know how to build fault-tolerant, real-time and batch pipelines using tools like dbt, Kafka, and modern streaming frameworks.

• You see yourself as an engineer who solves data and analytics problems — not just someone who writes SQL. You bring strong SQL skills, solid Python experience, you're comfortable building software and using AI tooling to do it well, and you have a deep appreciation for privacy, governance, and least privilege principles in security data handling.

• You care deeply about data reliability, cost efficiency, and observability in security contexts - you're comfortable building alerting for data SLAs.

About the team

The Security Insights team sits within Canva's Security & Trust supergroup, where we turn complex security data into actionable intelligence that keeps our platform and users secure.

Our mission is simple: make security decisions easy and fast for everyone at Canva by providing the right insights at the right time.

We work hand-in-hand with Security, Privacy, and Product teams to transform raw security telemetry into clear, actionable insights and solutions — and we're investing in real-time detection and an AI-ready data foundation to do it at ever-greater scale.

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 & 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 supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

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.