OutSystems

Senior Security Engineer - Application Security

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6 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.
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