About the job
Join Our Team at Motorway!
Motorway is the UK's leading online marketplace for used cars, connecting private sellers with thousands of trusted dealers across the nation. Launched in 2017, our innovative approach has transformed the car selling experience, and we are proud to be backed by top-tier technology investors, having secured £143 million in Series C financing.
This is an exceptional opportunity to become part of a rapidly growing scale-up during a pivotal moment in our expansion, contributing to positive change in the automotive industry.
Your Role:
As a Senior Developer Experience Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the security and scalability of our developer experience at Motorway. Our team is focused on building a new container platform utilizing AWS Fargate, and we are dedicated to improving our observability, reliability, and developer-centric tools.
You will bridge the gap between the Developer Experience and Security Operations teams, ensuring that security strategies are seamlessly integrated into our platform abstractions, tools, and configurations. Your mission is to make the secure path the easiest path for our engineers as they build, deploy, and operate software.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain secure-by-default platform capabilities, including IAM patterns, network primitives, secrets management, runtime protections, and encryption, that are user-friendly for product teams.
- Develop automated security checks and guardrails to enhance our security posture.

