Senior Software Security Engineer

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5 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Hardware • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
The Role
Senior Software Security Engineer responsible for threat modeling, security architecture reviews, code and penetration testing, integrating SAST/DAST/SCA into CI/CD, triaging vulnerabilities, driving secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices, incident response, and ensuring compliance with industry security standards.
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Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Aperçu de l’entreprise

Chez Motorola Solutions, nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée, unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes, les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations, des écoles, des hôpitaux, des entreprises et, finalement, des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.


Department Overview
The Avigilon security team, which you will be a key member of, is responsible for maintaining and implementing security controls for all confidential and intellectual property data across our physical security and video security platform, within the Avigilon organization.
This Senior Software Security Engineer will be responsible for analyzing software designs and implementations from a security perspective, identifying and proposing remediations to security issues throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Job Description

Responsibilities:

Security Design and Implementation
  • Perform threat modeling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate risk.
  • Support the engineering teams on detailed security requirements to meet compliance requirements and industry best practices.
  • Perform security code reviews looking for potential security vulnerabilities.
  • Act as a subject matter expert to advise and answer questions from engineering and compliance teams on technical product security matters.
Security Testing
  • Define and oversee the deployment of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to compile SBOMs of software components, helping to identify known vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.
  • Define and oversee the deployment of automated security testing tools into CI pipelines, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Secret Detection scanning tools.
  • Manual penetration testing of web applications (backend and frontend).Manual penetration testing skills in the domains of cloud infrastructure, embedded/OS or mobile are desirable.
  • Write custom scripts or unit test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken/missing security controls.
  • Recommend improvements to existing security scanning tools and processes, and propose new ones.
Vulnerability Management
  • Triage the findings from the automated security scanning tools.
  • Validate potential security vulnerabilities to determine whether they are actual true positives, or false positives (i.e. non-applicable) in the product context. Write proof of concept exploits when necessary to achieve this.
  • Assess the risk of vulnerabilities and threats in order to help the business determine their remediation priority order.
  • Communicate the identified security issues to engineering and compliance stakeholders, and manage them throughout the SDLC process to ensure they are properly addressed.
SDLC and DevSecOps Integration
  • Establish and maintain secure coding standards, baseline product security requirements and more general best practices to provide guidance to development teams.
  • Assist the program area with implementing a secure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline utilizing DevSecOps principles and practices to increase automation.
  • Implement automated security controls as part of CI/CD pipelines.
Incident Response and Compliance
  • Support product security incident response processes, including root cause analysis (identify the affected product components, data, and the overall impact level) and definition of mitigation strategies.
  • Define clear criteria and protocols for security incident response.
  • Conduct post-incident analysis to compile lists of lessons learned, and measures to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring, and refine response strategies.
  • Monitor emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends to proactively investigate, remediate, and integrate new protections.
  • Ensure products comply with relevant security standards, certifications, and regulations (e.g., OWASP, NIST).

Qualifications:

Experience and Education
  • 7+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product security and/or application security.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.
Technical Skills
  • In-depth knowledge of Linux and Docker container-based infrastructures, including their orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
  • Working knowledge of techniques, standards, and state-of-the-art authentication and authorization technologies, applied cryptography, security vulnerabilities and remediations.
  • Significant software development experience. Experience in Go (our main backend language), Typescript/Javascript, C/C++, Python and Bash is desirable.
  • Working knowledge of web-related protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST APIs, DOM, CSP), networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP), and security protocols (TLS).
  • Experience in performing threat modeling, with a good grasp of common threat vectors and frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of security principles, best practices, and industry standards, such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Critical Security Controls, OWASP ASVS and Testing Guides.
  • Familiarity with industry-standard security frameworks such as OWASP and NIST.
  • Experience with security tools such as SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA.
  • Exceptional analytical and investigative skills, with hands-on experience in root cause analysis.
  • Knowledge of current and emerging threats and techniques for exploiting security vulnerabilities.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline, security tools integration, and secure SDLC.
  • Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and on best practices on how to secure cloud environments.

Desirable Qualifications:

Advanced Expertise
  • Familiarity with security considerations for AI/ML systems is desirable.
  • Understanding of distributed systems design, implementation and operation.
  • Understanding of privacy threats and controls, including on how to adapt generic best practices to specific scenarios in the product by providing detailed specifications to stakeholders.
  • Exploit development experience, and good understanding of the necessary conditions to trigger different vulnerability types, and the maximum impact achievable.
  • Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery).
Education and Certifications
  • Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
  • Security certifications are a plus, including OSCP, OSEE, SANS/GIAC, CCSP, and CISSP.
Soft Skills and Leadership
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to translate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to design, document, and implement new security processes.
  • Experience in a high-growth technology environment or SaaS business.
  • Ability to remain calm under pressure, especially during incidents or audits.

Basic Requirements
  • Bachelors Degree
  • 5+ year of experience in security Engineering

Travel Requirements
Under 10%
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
Yes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.

Motorola Solutions adopte, favorise et promeut les principes de diversité, d’équité et d’inclusion. Nous encourageons et accueillons les candidatures de toutes les personnes qualifiées, quelles que soient leur race, origines ethnique, religion ou croyance, orientation sexuelle, identité et expression sexuelle, statut d’anciens combattants ou tout autre statut protégé par la Loi.

Nous sommes fiers de notre culture axée sur les personnes et les communautés, encourageant ainsi chaque Motorolan d’être la version la plus authentique de lui-même dans ses responsabilités afin de tenir la promesse d’un monde plus sécuritaire.

Si vous souhaitez vous joindre à notre communauté mais croyez que vous ne possédez pas toutes les exigences requises pour le poste convoité, nous aimerions tout de même connaître les raisons pour lesquelles vous pensez être un excellent candidat pour notre équipe.

Nous offrons également des mesures d’adaptation pendant toutes les étapes du processus d’embauche afin de favoriser l’inclusion des personnes vivant avec un  handicap physique et/ou mental. Pour demander un aménagement, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d'aménagement raisonnable afin que nous puissions vous aider.

Skills Required

  • 7+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product/application security
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field
  • 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering (listed under Basic Requirements)
  • Significant software development experience
  • Proficiency with Linux and Docker container-based infrastructures
  • Experience with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
  • Working knowledge of authentication/authorization, applied cryptography, and vulnerability remediation techniques
  • Experience performing threat modeling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews
  • Experience with SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, SBOM generation, and Secret Detection tools
  • Experience integrating automated security testing tools into CI/CD pipelines and applying DevSecOps principles
  • Manual penetration testing of web applications (backend and frontend)
  • Experience securing cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
  • Working knowledge of web protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST APIs, DOM, CSP) and networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP) and TLS
  • Strong analytical and investigative skills, including root cause analysis and incident response support
  • Familiarity with security standards and frameworks (OWASP, NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, OWASP ASVS)
  • Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery)
  • Experience in Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, C/C++, Python and Bash (development languages listed as desirable)
  • Familiarity with security considerations for AI/ML systems
  • Exploit development experience and deep understanding of vulnerability trigger conditions
  • Understanding of privacy threats and controls and ability to adapt best practices to product scenarios
  • Master's degree or equivalent experience
  • Security certifications (OSCP, OSEE, SANS/GIAC, CCSP, CISSP)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to translate technical security concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Motorola Solutions, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is effective from day one with multiple national carrier options and bundled prescription coverage. Offerings also include mental health benefits and Flexible Spending Accounts, with optional pet insurance.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off includes generous PTO with 9–10 paid holidays, and many salaried roles use a Flex Time Off or unlimited PTO approach. Paid parental and family leave plus adoption assistance expand support.
  • Retirement Support Retirement benefits feature a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. Additional financial programs like an employee stock purchase plan, performance bonuses, and company equity bolster long-term value.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
21,000 Employees

What We Do

Motorola Solutions is a global technology company that provides mission-critical communications, video security, and command center software to help protect people, property, and places for public safety agencies and enterprises.

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