Senior Security Engineer – Application Security

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Senior Security Engineer securing OutSystems’ AI-powered enterprise low-code platform. Driving application security, automation, and secure-by-default practices across AI and agentic systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Independently drive security work across all phases of the SDLC, from early design and threat modeling through implementation, testing, and release
  • Own delivery of moderately complex security projects or features
  • Partner with engineering and platform teams to secure AI-powered and agentic capabilities
  • Conduct focused security assessments of applications, APIs, internal services, and platform components
  • Contribute to secure-by-default patterns, guardrails, and paved roads
  • Operate and improve security tooling by tuning signal quality and reducing noise
  • Build or extend security tooling and automation
  • Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering partners
  • Identify gaps or inefficiencies in security processes and suggest improvements
  • Mentor junior engineers and new hires
  • Strengthen stakeholder relationships within the area of responsibility
  • Deliver security improvements that reduce real risk and shorten exposure windows
  • Prevent recurring vulnerability patterns through better design or automation
  • Enable engineering teams to ship faster with fewer security surprises

Requirements:

  • Proven experience executing application security work in modern, cloud-native environments
  • Strong grounding in application security fundamentals, including secure design and threat modeling
  • Experience with vulnerability intake, triage, collaborative analysis, and remediation
  • Ability to independently manage and deliver moderately complex security tasks from start to finish
  • Ability to work across application security, cloud security, and platform security concerns
  • Ability to write and reason about code
  • Experience building or extending 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 (required), Kubernetes, and microservices architectures
  • Understanding of penetration testing, red teaming, and purple teaming and when each is appropriate
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to mentor junior colleagues
  • Practical understanding of AI-enabled and automated systems
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools or agents
  • Experience with secure-by-default patterns, paved roads, or guardrails
  • Exposure to Azure in addition to AWS
  • Experience improving security tooling signal quality
  • Prior experience with developer platforms, low-code platforms, or highly automated systems

Benefits:

  • Structured professional development programs
  • Professional Development Fund
  • Internal Mobility Program
  • Mentorship from industry experts
  • Inclusive culture
  • Equal opportunity employment