Senior Security Software Engineer — OAuth & Cloud

Motive; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

401k contribution

Paid time off

Job summary

Motive is looking for a Sr Software Engineer, Security to design and build secure, scalable systems protecting Motive’s products, infrastructure, and customer data. You will work across engineering and product teams to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.

You’ll help build authentication flows, OAuth integrations, authorization platforms, BYOK capabilities, and other security features, tackling complex problems and improving developer security practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, application security, or a related discipline.
• Strong programming experience with Python, Go, JavaScript, or a similar language.
• Experience designing and implementing authentication, OAuth, authorization, or identity platforms.
• Experience identifying and remediating common application security vulnerabilities, including OWASP Top 10 risks.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls for cloud-based applications and infrastructure, particularly AWS.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, identity and access management, secrets management, encryption, and open-source security tooling.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to communicate complex security concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain authentication flows and OAuth integrations across Motive’s products.
• Build and evolve authorization platforms that enforce secure, scalable access to product capabilities and customer data.
• Develop BYOK capabilities and related security controls for customers with advanced data-protection requirements.
• Build and maintain security features, tooling, services, and automation across Motive’s products and cloud infrastructure.
• Conduct architecture, code, data-handling, and threat-modeling reviews to identify and reduce security risks.
• Define and implement secure design patterns, controls, and repeatable guidance for engineering teams.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve application security practices.
• Drive complex security projects independently from technical design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing improvement.
• Contribute to security testing, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, penetration testing, and attack-tree analysis.
• Mentor engineers and help build consensus around security-focused technical decisions.

Skills

Python

Go

JavaScript

Security engineering

Cloud security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

IAM

Encryption

Job description

Motive is looking for a Sr Software Engineer, Security to design and build secure, scalable systems protecting Motive’s products, infrastructure, and customer data. You will work across engineering and product teams to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.

You’ll help build authentication flows, OAuth integrations, authorization platforms, BYOK capabilities, and other security features, tackling complex problems and improving developer security practices.