Motive
Lead Security Engineer
Job Summary
The role involves designing and implementing security features and projects for Motive's products, with a focus on automation, security policies, and data security. The ideal candidate has expertise in programming languages such as Python or Go and experience with security testing tools and multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities include developing secure defaults, improving developer tooling, and collaborating across teams to ensure security outcomes. The position offers benefits including health insurance, paid time off, and retirement plans, and emphasizes automation, security, and cross-functional work.
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Job Description
Who we are:
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.
Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
About the Role:
Motive is looking for a passionate Sr. Security Software Engineer to join our Security Engineering team. The team is responsible for security and privacy of all products and services offered by the company.
In this position you will be expected to design, plan, and implement features and projects which act on and verify the security architecture of Motive. Tasks will include adding to an existing web application, scripting, and building secure libraries for internal consumption. The majority of these projects will focus on increasing developer autonomy through automated tooling, automated security policy violations detection, and data use/enrichment to drive security outcomes; a special emphasis is placed on documentation and testing.
What You’ll Do:
- Create and scale security products and services that developers love, and would line up to get
- Build secure defaults and paved roads to eliminate classes of security bugs before they get written
- Level up your skills securing modern languages and technologies running in a true multi-cloud environment
- Lead with code, automation and data in everything you do
- Create security impact across teams, with strong support from the business
What We’re Looking For:
- You have a proven ability to manage yourself and produce results
- You can learn and find bugs in any language, specifically Python, Go, Ruby, JS
- You are an expert developer in one or more of Python or Go
- You can write code that people use to do their jobs, and write it safely
- You have expert knowledge of security testing tools and techniques
- You are a strong communicator who is comfortable working cross-functionally, with a track record of delivering results
- Experience designing and implementing multi-component software systems, especially those which are reliant on third party APIs
- Ability to design and write program/design specifications for self and others
- Self-starting and independent. Able to manage and drive projects to completion based on designed specifications
- Able to work across team boundaries, reach consensus amongst disparate view points, and graciously receive feedback
- Understanding of data structures and their proper uses
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and ArgoCD
- Experience with Cloud Security
Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
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