Security Engineer - Abuse Investigation (Trust & Safety)
Canva
- Sydney, NSW
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Proactively perform abuse investigations for known and unknown threat vectors
- Actively develop and monitor alerts and metrics to detect abusive patterns
- Define controls to target abusive patterns by collaborating with engineering teams
- Build out and develop documentation, tools, and foundations for abuse management and communications, participate in post incident reviews, and contribute to incident reports
- Identify trends, research, new technologies, and emerging abuse threat models, which may impact the business
- Assist in the promotion of an abuse/security mindset and the establishment of best practices across a wide range of T&S areas: account takeover, bot management, content safety, abuse operations, and incident response
- Contribute to projects that enhance the abuse/fraud positioning of the business
- Be a driving force to influence company teams for Trust & Safety matters
- First and foremost, have a curious detective mindset and be driven to solve ambiguous problems with simple solutions
- More than 3 years of proven experience in Trust & Safety and/or Security, e.g., threat intelligence, reporting, and modelling threat actors and their TTPs to quantify abuse vectors
- Experience reviewing product logs and signals and detecting anomalies
- Familiar and comfortable reviewing application source code
- Familiarity working with SQL or other query languages to perform threat hunting and analysis
- Documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills; the ability to work alongside technical and non-technical colleagues
- The ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects in a dynamic environment
- Experience writing code on any major programming languages (Python, Java, etc) is a plus
- 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