Senior Security Engineer - Application Security
OutSystems24 hours ago
Remote, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive application security work across all phases of the SDLC, including secure design, threat modeling, implementation, testing, and release.
- Own small-to-medium security initiatives and moderately complex security projects or service components.
- Conduct focused security assessments of applications, APIs, internal services, and platform components.
- Develop secure-by-default patterns, guardrails, paved roads, security tooling, and automation.
- Tune security tooling to improve signal quality, reduce noise, and increase actionability.
- Communicate security risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering stakeholders.
- Mentor junior engineers and new hires and strengthen Product Security relationships.
Requirements
- Proven experience executing application security work in modern, cloud-native environments.
- Strong application security fundamentals, including secure design, threat modeling, vulnerability triage, collaborative analysis, and remediation.
- Ability to independently manage and deliver moderately complex security tasks from start to finish.
- Experience working across application, cloud, and platform security concerns.
- Ability to write and reason about code and build or extend security tooling and automation using modern programming languages.
- Experience reviewing and securing AI-generated or low-code-generated code and workflows.
- Practical experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
- Understanding of penetration testing, red teaming, and purple teaming and when each is appropriate.
- Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, judgment, and execution skills.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with AI-enabled systems, AI-assisted development tools, secure-by-default platform patterns, Azure, security signal improvement, developer platforms, low-code platforms, or highly automated systems.
Benefits
- Professional Development Fund and Internal Mobility Program supporting vertical progression, lateral moves, and specialized AI skills.
- Global collaboration with experienced mentors and a diverse, inclusive workforce.
- Remote employees are supported as part of OutSystems' worldwide global workforce.
- Equal opportunity employment with consideration for qualified applicants regardless of protected status.
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About OutSystems
OutSystems builds a low-code application development platform for enterprises to design, integrate, and run web and mobile software, with cloud or on‑prem deployment options. It sells subscriptions and services around its PaaS to help teams deliver business‑critical apps, integrate with existing systems, and apply DevOps/AI tooling. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Boston, the company is privately held and serves global enterprise customers across many industries.