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Senior Security Engineer

Gomotive

LocationCanada
Senioritysenior
CompanyGomotive
Verification agingAug 21
Compensation

$146k-$184k

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Experience

5+ years stated

Work authorization

Authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations

Schedule

fixed

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health insurancepharmacy coverageoptical caredental carepaid time offsick time offshort term disability coveragelong term disability coveragelife insurance401k contribution

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What this posting tells you

Senior Security Engineer at Motive, fully remote in Canada. Requires 5+ years in hardware security and development using Python and C/C++, with strong expertise in hardware root of trust, secure boot, and security architecture reviews. Full-time role with salary CAD 146,000 to 184,000 (~USD 110,000 to 138,500). Candidates must be authorized under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Benefits include health, dental, vision, PTO, disability, life insurance, and 401k. Schedule is fixed. High confidence in remote status.

Role lane

Backend, Design and creative, DevOps, Education, Finance and investments, Legal, Operations, Product, QA and testing, Security, Software

Where you can work

Canada

Working hours

America/Toronto, America/Vancouver, America/Edmonton, America/Winnipeg, America/Halifax, America/St_Johns

Arrangement

senior · full_time

Required signals
Hardware SecuritySecurity ArchitectureThreat ModelingPythonC/C++Cloud SecurityFirmware SecurityEmbedded SystemsSecure BootSecurity TestingSecurity Requirements
Preferred signals
RustGo
Market context

Backend hiring on WFH.team

3,337active related roles
2,348new in the latest period
160.4jobs per 100 candidates
$183kmedian of comparable listed ranges

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Skills and signals
Hardware SecuritySecurity ArchitectureThreat ModelingPythonC/C++Cloud SecurityFirmware SecurityEmbedded SystemsSecure BootSecurity TestingSecurity RequirementsRustGoRemote in Canada
Job description

Senior Security Engineer at Gomotive

Who we are

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the role

As a Security Engineer, Hardware Security you will be a key member of the Product Security Team. You will be the primary Security partner for Engineering and Hardware teams, focusing on design reviews, threat modeling, and building scalable "secure-by-default" components (libraries, services, frameworks, components) that empower hardware engineers to ship the product securely. You will work across teams, influencing security and driving the hardware security initiative.

This is a highly strategic and technical role for architects who want to scale security through programs, influence, and engineering excellence, focusing on design, automation, and enablement.

What you’ll do

  • Build the hardware and embedded security baseline and process across Motive devices, including boot chain, firmware, FOTA, and manufacturing
  • Drive relationships with hardware engineering team to ensure findings are prioritized, validated and remediated
  • Identify and assess hardware security risks across the product lifecycle including designing, manufacturing, deployment, updating, and decommissioning
  • Lead hardware security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security testing for product systems
  • Define and review security requirements for hardware platforms, embedded systems, firmware interfaces, boot processes, debug capabilities, and device lifecycle controls in cloud-connected environments.
  • Drive end to end security for device hardware across IoT andcloud security infrastructure

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years years of experience in Hardware Security, including creating security by design patterns into new devices and platforms
  • 5+ years of experience in working with product teams creating security designs and providing security requirements
  • 5+ years of hands on development experience in the programming languages like python and C/C++
  • Strong understanding of hardware root of trust, secure boot, attestation, key protection, device identity, and secure provisioning concepts.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, reviewing, and validating security controls for hardware and low-level system architectures.
  • Experience in cloud security, runtime security, supply chain security, and application security best practices

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 — $184,000 CAD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here .

UK Candidate Privacy Notice here .

The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology.

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.

Company context

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Gomotive is hiring for 1 active remote role, with remote-friendly openings, application links, and job details refreshed from the public remote job inventory.

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