Red Team Security Engineer

Motive • Austin, TX

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About The Position

As a Red Team Security Engineer and key member of the Product Security Team, you will serve as the primary Security partner for software and engineering teams, evaluating security posture across the organization. You will conduct adversary emulation and offensive security assessments across cloud environments and drive remediation of identified issues.

The role involves planning and executing red team operations and targeted assessments, evaluating cloud infrastructure and related technologies, validating potential attack paths, and assessing detection and response coverage in partnership with blue team and detection engineering functions. You will also track emerging attacker techniques and cloud exploitation trends.

Motive empowers teams responsible for physical operations with tools intended to make work safer, more productive, and more profitable. Its platform combines safety, operations, and finance capabilities for managing drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spending. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers across industries.

Requirements

• At least 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.
• Must be authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GXPN, GPEN, or cloud security certifications.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Drive remediation efforts for identified security issues.

Benefits

• Health, pharmacy, optical, and dental care benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Paid time off and sick time off, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Life insurance, subject to eligibility requirements.
• 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.
• For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed