Senior Software Security Engineer

motorolasolutions; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Motorola Solutions seeks a Senior Software Security Engineer to join the Avigilon security team in Vancouver. You will analyze designs, perform threat modeling, and guide development teams toward secure implementations across the SDLC.

Responsibilities include security design, testing (SAST/DAST/SCAs), vulnerability management, DevSecOps integration, and incident response. 7+ years in security engineering and a CS/InfoSec degree are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product security and/or application security.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform threat modeling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate risk.
• Lead security testing across CI/CD pipelines including SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA.
• Triage findings from automated security scanning tools and validate true positives.
• Assess risk of vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation collaboratively with engineering teams.
• Establish secure coding standards and DevSecOps practices to improve automation.

Skills

Threat modeling

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

SAST

DAST

IAST

SCA

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)

Job description

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Chez Motorola Solutions, nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée, unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes, les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations, des écoles, des hôpitaux, des entreprises et, finalement, des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.

Department Overview

The Avigilon security team, which you will be a key member of, is responsible for maintaining and implementing security controls for all confidential and intellectual property data across our physical security and video security platform, within the Avigilon organization. This Senior Software Security Engineer will be responsible for analyzing software designs and implementations from a security perspective, identifying and proposing remediations to security issues throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Security Design and Implementation

• Perform threat modeling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate risk.
• Support the engineering teams on detailed security requirements to meet compliance requirements and industry best practices.
• Perform security code reviews looking for potential security vulnerabilities.
• Act as a subject matter expert to advise and answer questions from engineering and compliance teams on technical product security matters.

Security Testing

• Define and oversee the deployment of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to compile SBOMs of software components, helping to identify known vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.
• Define and oversee the deployment of automated security testing tools into CI pipelines, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Secret Detection scanning tools.
• Manual penetration testing of web applications (backend and frontend).Manual penetration testing skills in the domains of cloud infrastructure, embedded/OS or mobile are desirable.
• Write custom scripts or unit test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken/missing security controls.
• Recommend improvements to existing security scanning tools and processes, and propose new ones.

Vulnerability Management

• Triage the findings from the automated security scanning tools.
• Validate potential security vulnerabilities to determine whether they are actual true positives, or false positives (i.e. non-applicable) in the product context. Write proof of concept exploits when necessary to achieve this.
• Assess the risk of vulnerabilities and threats in order to help the business determine their remediation priority order.
• Communicate the identified security issues to engineering and compliance stakeholders, and manage them throughout the SDLC process to ensure they are properly addressed.

SDLC and DevSecOps Integration

• Establish and maintain secure coding standards, baseline product security requirements and more general best practices to provide guidance to development teams.
• Assist the program area with implementing a secure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline utilizing DevSecOps principles and practices to increase automation.
• Implement automated security controls as part of CI/CD pipelines.

Incident Response and Compliance

• Support product security incident response processes, including root cause analysis (identify the affected product components, data, and the overall impact level) and definition of mitigation strategies.
• Define clear criteria and protocols for security incident response.
• Conduct post-incident analysis to compile lists of lessons learned, and measures to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring, and refine response strategies.
• Monitor emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends to proactively investigate, remediate, and integrate new protections.
• Ensure products comply with relevant security standards, certifications, and regulations (e.g., OWASP, NIST).

Qualifications:

Experience and Education

• 7+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product security and/or application security.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.

Technical Skills

• In-depth knowledge of Linux and Docker container-based infrastructures, including their orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of techniques, standards, and state-of-the-art authentication and authorization technologies, applied cryptography, security vulnerabilities and remediations.
• Significant software development experience. Experience in Go (our main backend language), Typescript/ Javascript, C/C++, Python and Bash is desirable.
• Working knowledge of web-related protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST APIs, DOM, CSP), networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP), and security protocols (TLS).
• Experience in performing threat modeling, with a good grasp of common threat vectors and frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of security principles, best practices, and industry standards, such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Critical Security Controls, OWASP ASVS and Testing Guides.
• Familiarity with industry-standard security frameworks such as OWASP and NIST.
• Experience with security tools such as SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA.
• Exceptional analytical and investigative skills, with hands‑on experience in root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of current and emerging threats and techniques for exploiting security vulnerabilities.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline, security tools integration, and secure SDLC.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and on best practices on how to secure cloud environments.

Desirable Qualifications:

Advanced Expertise

• Familiarity with security considerations for AI/ML systems is desirable.
• Understanding of distributed systems design, implementation and operation.
• Understanding of privacy threats and controls, including on how to adapt generic best practices to specific scenarios in the product by providing detailed specifications to stakeholders.
• Exploit development experience, and good understanding of the necessary conditions to trigger different vulnerability types, and the maximum impact achievable.
• Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery).

Education and Certifications

• Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Security certifications are a plus, including OSCP, OSEE, SANS/GIAC, CCSP, and CISSP.

Soft Skills and Leadership

• Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to translate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to design, document, and implement new security processes.
• Experience in a high-growth technology environment or SaaS business.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure, especially during incidents or audits.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ year of experience in security Engineering

Travel Requirements

Under 10%

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

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Nous sommes fiers de notre culture axée sur les personnes et les communautés, encourageant ainsi chaque Motorolan d’être la version la plus authentique de lui-même dans ses responsabilités afin de tenir la promesse d’un monde plus sécuritaire.

Si vous souhaitez vous joindre à notre communauté mais croyez que vous ne possédez pas toutes les exigences requises pour le poste convoité, nous aimerions tout de même connaître les raisons pour lesquelles vous pensez être un excellent candidat pour notre équipe.

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