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Lisboa, Portugal
Hybrid
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About This Role
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be a key hands-on contributor within OutSystems' Security Operations Center (SOC), responsible for implementing, tuning, and maintaining security controls across our multi-cloud infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering position requiring strong expertise in cloud security, detection engineering, and security tooling to help defend our digital assets and global operations. You will work closely with, and under the technical direction of, the Lead Security Engineer and the wider security team.
Key Responsibilities
Build and operate security engineering across on-premise, multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP or similar), and SaaS environments. You will deploy, configure, and maintain security infrastructure (SIEM, EDR, logging, monitoring, alerting, threat-intelligence integrations) in support of a hybrid SOC model, including day-to-day tool management and tuning.
Apply and help enforce security architecture and standards. Implement established security standards, policies, and best practices for cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and internal tooling, and contribute ideas to improve them.
Engineer, implement, and tune detection and response. Develop and maintain detection rules and automated response playbooks for continuous threat detection. Support technical remediation efforts, working with engineering teams to implement fixes for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations found during incident response or audits (Detection Engineering, Response Automation & Remediation).
Partner with product engineering, DevOps, and QA to embed security best practices. Contribute to threat modeling, design/architecture reviews, and secure coding and deployment practices, including detection engineering for applications (Secure SDLC Integration).
Evaluate and adopt new security tools and techniques, helping ensure our defenses keep pace with the business and technology growth.
Qualifications
Solid hands-on experience (4-6 years) in security engineering/implementation for cloud-based and SaaS environments, ideally multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Strong working knowledge of cloud security, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, key management, secrets management, firewalls, and security tooling (SIEM, EDR, logging/monitoring).
Hands-on scripting or automation skills (e.g. Python, PowerShell, Terraform, Yara) to implement security automations, detection rules, and guardrails.
Practical experience implementing and tuning systems for incident response, detection engineering, and vulnerability management.
Good understanding of the secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) and the ability to collaborate with dev/ops teams to embed security controls.
Working knowledge of Windows, Linux, and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking, with the ability to identify threats and propose sound technical mitigations.
Good communication skills to explain security issues, risks, and mitigations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to work effectively within a team.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Relevant security certifications are a plus (e.g. CISSP, CISM, or cloud-security credentials).
OutSystems is a leading AI Development Platform built for the enterprise. Global organizations trust OutSystems to rapidly build mission-critical apps and agents, modernize legacy processes with agentic systems, and govern their entire AI portfolio across complex regulatory environments, all on one unified platform.
As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. While AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities, most large organizations find themselves stuck on one side of the "enterprise gap" because AI by itself doesn't solve their complex use cases and business challenges. OutSystems bridges the "enterprise gap" by combining the speed of generative AI with a deterministic, enterprise-grade framework. We provide the tools for teams of any size to deliver high-quality, reliable AI solutions that drive real business impact.
We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us as we empower organizations to build, deploy, and scale the next generation of enterprise software. While we are leading the charge into the agentic era, our mission is broader: we are the platform enterprise leaders trust to evolve their entire business, accelerating innovation through secure, governed human-AI collaboration.
OutSystems is a global company, with more than 900k developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 600 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and includes a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.
Our customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries— such as Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA—who trust OutSystems to deliver ROI and transformational impact.
Consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms Gartner, IDC and Forrester, OutSystems continues to shape the future of enterprise software development in the agentic era. We are proud to be named a leader in more than 100 categories on G2, including #1 in Customer Satisfaction in Enterprise Low Code Development, and most recently as a leader in AI Agent Building in the G2 Spring 2026 Reports.
Our culture is built on our core values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Alignment. We operate as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership to pursue our vision of being the AI platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their most critical applications and systems.
What do we have to offer you?
A company at the vanguard of the agentic revolution, where we don’t just react to AI innovation—we architect it. Joining OutSystems means stepping onto a high-growth rocket ship that combines the fearless agility of a startup with the sophisticated, global foundation of an enterprise powerhouse.
Real growth opportunities. We don't just talk about development; we invest in it through structured programs designed to scale your expertise. Whether you are aiming for vertical progression, exploring lateral moves into new domains, or mastering specialized AI skills through our Professional Development Fund and Internal Mobility Program, we provide the resources to get you there.
A global collective of world-class talent, where you’ll collaborate with enterprise software legends and sought-after thought leaders. At OutSystems, our industry experts aren't just visionaries—they are accessible, approachable mentors who are deeply invested in your growth as we architect the agentic future together.
OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture where talented individuals from all backgrounds are empowered to learn, experiment and make an impact. . We believe that driving our next phase of growth requires the radical creativity that only comes from diverse perspectives. We are committed to building a team as global and diverse as the organizations we serve, ensuring every individual can perform to their full potential. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.
