Motive

Red Team Security Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in offensive security and red teaming.
  • Familiarity with attacker tactics and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Proficiency in creating concise and actionable reports for varied audiences.
  • Possession of industry certifications like OSCP, OSEP, or cloud security certifications.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute red team operations and adversary simulations.
  • Evaluate cloud infrastructure and security configurations.
  • Identify attack paths due to IAM misconfigurations and secrets exposure.
  • Assess detection and response capabilities with blue team collaboration.
  • Monitor emerging attack techniques and trends in cloud exploitation.

Benefits

  • Health, pharmacy, optical, and dental care benefits.
  • Paid time off and sick leave.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance coverage.
  • 401k contribution options.
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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