Senior Developer Experience Security Engineer

About the role

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..