Senior Developer Experience Security Engineer

Motorway Online Ltd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity scheme

25 days holiday

Flexible working (2 days in London)

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension scheme (5% contributed)

Enhanced family leave

Employee Assistance Programme

EV leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Nursery salary sacrifice

1 paid volunteering day a year

Job summary

Motorway is expanding its technology team and seeks a Developer Experience Security Engineer to embed secure engineering across our platform. You will shape secure-by-default capabilities, automate security checks, and reduce toil through tooling, while collaborating with engineering to secure CI/CD pipelines and platform deployments.

You will stay current with evolving best practices, translating policies into practical guardrails, and supporting incident response within a virtual SOC.

Qualifications

• Proven experience enabling other engineers as a Platform or Developer Experience engineer.
• Experience with Containers and serverless architectures using Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud security best practices and tooling.
• Solid understanding of secure software development and platform security patterns.
• Familiarity with security tooling (SIEM, IDS/IPS, WAF, vulnerability scanners).
• Knowledge of common ATT&CK techniques and security frameworks (ISO27001, NIST CSF) is beneficial.

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 audits.
• Embed secure software development practices into CI/CD pipelines and templates.
• Reduce toil for the Tech and Security Operations teams through automation.
• Ensure platform security telemetry, logging, and monitoring are standardised across teams.
• Define platform-wide security use cases and scalable detections for multiple teams.
• Work with the Security Operations Team as part of a virtual SOC for incident response.
• Stay current with security trends and best practices.
• Create documentation, examples, and training to promote secure engineering.
• Translate security policies into practical platform patterns and guardrails.

Job description

About Motorway

Motorway is the UK’s largest online car-selling platform. We connect private sellers directly with over 8,000 dealers nationwide. Our online platform helps sellers achieve great prices for their cars while giving dealers fast, reliable access to the stock they want for their dealerships. Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car. Motorway is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.

About the role

Motorway is rapidly growing its technology team and business, and we are looking for a Developer Experience Security Engineer to help enable a secure, scalable, and frictionless developer experience across Motorway.. We have recently built and rolled out a new container platform on top of AWS Fargate, and are currently enhancing our observability, reliability, and developer-focused tooling. We will continue to build and evolve secure, standardised platform capabilities that reduce cognitive load and help teams ship faster with confidence.

As a Developer Experience Security Engineer, you will ensure that security is built into how engineers build, deploy, and operate software, making the secure path the easiest path you will ensure that security is built into how engineers build, deploy, and operate software.

The role will involve:

• Design, implement, and maintain secure-by-default platform capabilities (e.g. IAM patterns, network primitives, secrets management, runtime protections, encryption) that are easy for product teams to adopt.
• Build automated security checks, guardrails, and visibility that continuously assess risk and reduce the need for manual security audits.
• Collaborate with engineering to embed secure software development practices into CI/CD pipelines, templates, and shared tooling (Shift left and Secure by design principles).
• Reduce manual work (toil) for the technology and Security Operations Team using automation (e.g. scripting, workflows, tooling).
• Ensure platform-level security telemetry, logging, and monitoring are consistent, high-quality, and provided as a standard capability for all teams.
• Define and implement platform-wide security use cases (e.g. SIEM detections, alerts, and signals) that scale across teams without bespoke configuration
• Work as part of a virtual SOC with the Security Operations Team to support in security incident response.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends and best practices.
• Enable secure engineering practices through documentation, examples, platform defaults, and targeted training where appropriate.
• Help translate security policies and standards into practical, enforceable platform patterns and guardrails.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Platform engineer, Developer Experience engineer, or similar role focused on enabling other engineers.
• Proven experience working with Containers and serverless with Infrastructure as code.
• Good knowledge of AWS cloud security best practices and tooling
• Technical knowledge of best practice security for networks, systems, web applications, APIs and databases.
• Good understanding of secure software development practices.
• Familiarity with security tools and technologies such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, WAF and vulnerability scanners.
• Knowledge of common adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (Mitre Att&ck TTPs).
• Knowledge of security standards and frameworks (e.g. ISO27001, NIST CSF, AWS FSBP) is beneficial.
• Relevant security certifications (e.g. GCLD, Security+, AWS/GCP Security Certifications) are a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities

BENEFITS

We’ve got your back, in life’s biggest moments and the everyday ones too.

• Competitive salary
• Equity scheme - we all share in Motorway’s success
• 25 days holiday
• Flexible working (2 days a week in our London office, with socials and snacks galore)
• Private medical insurance via BUPA
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme (we contribute 5%)
• Enhanced family leave (e.g. 26 weeks full pay for maternity or adoption)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• EV leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
• 1 paid volunteering day a year