[Hiring] Senior Security Engineer @OutSystems

Role Description

As a Senior Security Engineer on the Application Security team at OutSystems, you will independently deliver meaningful security outcomes across our #1 AI-powered low-code platform, helping ensure that applications, platforms, and agentic capabilities are secure by design and safe by default.

In this role, you will:

• 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, adjusting standard approaches as needed to achieve the intended outcome.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to secure AI-powered and agentic capabilities, ensuring security considerations are built in early rather than bolted on later.
• Conduct focused security assessments of applications, APIs, internal services, and platform components using the appropriate depth and methodology for the risk.
• Contribute to the development and adoption of secure-by-default patterns, guardrails, and paved roads that scale security without increasing friction.
• Operate and improve security tooling by tuning signal quality, reducing noise, and identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness.
• Build or extend security tooling and automation to eliminate manual or repetitive work.
• Clearly communicate risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering partners in a way that supports informed decision-making.
• Proactively identify gaps or inefficiencies in security processes and suggest practical improvements aligned with team goals.
• Mentor junior engineers and new hires, helping them ramp up effectively and understand how Product Security operates at OutSystems.
• Strengthen stakeholder relationships within your area of responsibility by being reliable, pragmatic, and outcome-oriented.

Qualifications

• Proven experience executing application security work in modern, cloud-native environments.
• Strong grounding in application security fundamentals, including:
  • Secure design and threat modeling
  • Vulnerability intake, triage, collaborative analysis, and remediation
• Ability to independently manage and deliver moderately complex security tasks from start to finish.
• Comfortable working across application security, cloud security, and platform security concerns within a defined scope.
• Demonstrated ability to write and reason about code, including:
  • Building or extending security tooling and automation using modern programming languages
  • Acting as a human-in-the-loop to review, validate, and secure AI-generated or low-code–generated code and workflows
• Practical experience with AWS (required), Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
• Clear understanding of the differences between penetration testing, red teaming, and purple teaming, and when each is appropriate.
• Strong communicator able to adapt messaging to different audiences and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior colleagues and contribute positively to team culture.
• Comfortable seeking guidance on ambiguous or novel problems while owning execution and delivery.

Requirements

• Practical understanding of AI-enabled and automated systems, including how increased autonomy affects trust boundaries, failure modes, and risk.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or agents to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and correctness.
• Experience contributing to or improving secure-by-default patterns, paved roads, or guardrails in a platform or product environment.
• Exposure to Azure in addition to AWS.
• Experience improving the signal quality of security tooling by reducing noise and increasing actionability.
• Prior experience working on developer platforms, low-code platforms, or highly automated systems.

Benefits

• A company at the vanguard of the agentic revolution, where we don’t just react to AI innovation—we architect it.
• Real growth opportunities through structured programs designed to scale your expertise.
• A global collective of world-class talent, collaborating with enterprise software legends and sought-after thought leaders.
• An inclusive culture where talented individuals from all backgrounds are empowered to learn, experiment, and make an impact.