
Senior Security Engineer - Application Security
OutSystems6 days ago
Remote, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive application security work across all phases of the SDLC, including secure design, threat modeling, implementation, testing, and release.
- Own and deliver moderately complex security projects, features, and small-to-medium security initiatives with limited oversight.
- Conduct focused security assessments of applications, APIs, internal services, and platform components.
- Partner with engineering and platform teams to secure AI-powered and agentic capabilities.
- Develop and promote secure-by-default patterns, guardrails, and paved roads.
- Operate, tune, and improve security tooling by reducing noise and increasing signal quality.
- Build or extend security tooling and automation to eliminate manual or repetitive work.
- Communicate security risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering stakeholders.
- Identify security process gaps and propose practical improvements.
- Mentor junior engineers and new hires and strengthen Product Security relationships.
Requirements
- Proven experience executing application security work in modern, cloud-native environments.
- Strong grounding in secure design, threat modeling, vulnerability intake, triage, collaborative analysis, and remediation.
- Ability to independently manage moderately complex security tasks from start to finish.
- Experience working across application security, cloud security, and platform security concerns.
- Ability to write and reason about code and build or extend security tooling and automation using modern programming languages.
- Ability to review, validate, and secure AI-generated or low-code-generated code and workflows.
- Practical experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
- Understanding of when to use penetration testing, red teaming, and purple teaming.
- Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Preferred experience with AI-enabled and automated systems, AI-assisted development tools, C#, Python, JavaScript, 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 colleagues across a diverse, inclusive organization.
- Equal opportunity employment and a global workforce with remote employees and offices across multiple countries.