Motive

Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)

Motive • $146K — $190K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, and detection validation
  • Knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures with mapping experience to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK
  • Strong report writing skills for actionable insights
  • Ability to communicate technical issues to various stakeholders
  • Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GXPN, GPEN, or cloud security certifications

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute red team operations and adversary simulations for cloud environments
  • Evaluate security of cloud infrastructure, identity architectures, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Identify attack paths involving IAM misconfigurations and insecure automation
  • Assess detection and response capabilities by working with blue team functions
  • Track emerging attacker techniques and cloud exploitation trends

Benefits

  • Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits
  • Paid time off and sick leave
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • 401k contribution
Full Job Description
About the Role:

As a Red Team Security Engineer you will be a key member of the Product Security Team. You will be the primary Security partner for software and engineering teams focusing on evaluating security posture across the organization. The Red Team Engineer will be responsible for conducting adversary emulation and offensive security assessments across cloud environments while driving remediation efforts of issues.
What You'll Do:
  • Plan and execute red team operations, adversary simulations, and targeted security assessments focused on cloud environments.
  • Evaluate the security of cloud infrastructure, identity architectures, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud-native services.
  • Identify and validate attack paths involving IAM misconfigurations, overprivileged roles, secrets exposure, metadata abuse, insecure automation, and weaknesses in cloud service configurations.
  • Assess detection and response coverage by exercising logging, alerting, monitoring, and incident response processes in partnership with blue team and detection engineering functions.
  • Track emerging attacker techniques, cloud exploitation trends, and new abuse paths relevant to modern enterprise environments.
What We're Looking For:
  • 5+ years of experience in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, and detection validation
  • Familiarity with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, and the ability to map findings to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Ability to write concise, actionable reports and communicate complex technical issues to diverse stakeholders
  • Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GXPN, GPEN, or cloud security certifications.


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:

Canada

$146,000-$190,000 CAD

All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.

About Motive

Motive is a software company that provides cloud-based solutions for the automotive industry. The company's products include customer relationship management (CRM) software, sales and service applications, and data analytics tools. Motive was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California. The company has a strong focus on innovation and has received numerous awards for its products and services. Motive has a small team of around 200 employees and is privately held.
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