Developer Experience Security Engineer — Secure-by-Design Platform

Motorway; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity scheme

25 days holiday

Hybrid working (2 days in London)

Private medical insurance via BUPA

Life assurance

Pension scheme (5% employer)

Enhanced family leave

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

EV leasing scheme

Cycle to work

Nursery salary sacrifice

1 paid volunteering day a year

Job summary

Motorway is seeking a Developer Experience Security Engineer to embed security into how engineers build, deploy, and operate software on our AWS-based platform. You will shape secure-by-default capabilities, run automated checks, and drive secure practices across teams.

Join a fast-growing London-scale-up that values security, developer experience, and collaboration. The role offers hybrid working with a London office presence and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Proven experience enabling other engineers.
• Experience with Containers and serverless with Infrastructure as code.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud security best practices and tooling.
• Security practices for networks, systems, web apps, APIs and databases.
• Familiarity with security tools like SIEM, IDS/IPS, WAF and vulnerability scanners.
• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK TTPs.
• Knowledge of security standards (ISO27001, NIST CSF, AWS/FSBP) is beneficial.
• Relevant security certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain secure-by-default platform capabilities that are easy for product teams to adopt.
• Build automated security checks, guardrails and visibility to reduce manual security audits.
• Collaborate with engineering to embed secure SDLC practices into CI/CD pipelines and shared tooling.
• Reduce toil through automation and scripting.
• Ensure platform security telemetry, logging and monitoring are high quality and standardised.
• Define platform-wide security use cases (SIEM detections, alerts) scalable across teams.
• Work with Security Operations Team in a virtual SOC to support incident response.
• Stay current with security trends and best practices.
• Create documentation, examples, platform defaults and training to enable secure engineering.
• Translate security policies into practical platform guardrails.

Job description

Motorway is seeking a Developer Experience Security Engineer to embed security into how engineers build, deploy, and operate software on our AWS-based platform. You will shape secure-by-default capabilities, run automated checks, and drive secure practices across teams.

Join a fast-growing London-scale-up that values security, developer experience, and collaboration. The role offers hybrid working with a London office presence and a comprehensive benefits package.