Lead Security Engineer

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About This Role
As a Lead Security Engineer, you will be a critical technical leader in OutSystems' Security Operations Center (SOC), responsible for designing, implementing, and managing security across our multi-cloud infrastructure and leading security engineering efforts. This is a lead, hands-on engineering position requiring deep expertise in cloud security architecture, detection engineering, security tooling, and the secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) to proactively defend our digital assets and global operations.

*Key Responsibilities*

• Lead and manage security engineering across on-premise, multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP or similar), and SaaS environments. You will design, architect, deploy, and implement the security infrastructure (SIEM, EDR, logging, monitoring, alerting, threat-intelligence integrations) to support a hybrid SOC model, including overall tool management and tuning.
• Design and enforce security architecture and strategy. Define and implement security standards, policies, and best practices for cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and internal tooling.
• Engineer, implement, and continuously tune security systems (SIEM, EDR, etc.) for continuous threat detection and automated response. Lead 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 Implementation).
• Work closely with product engineering, DevOps, QA to embed security best practices. Perform threat modeling, review design/architecture, and implement secure coding and deployment practices, including detection engineering for applications (Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Integration).
• Continuously evaluate, select, and implement new security tools and frameworks, ensuring that our defenses scale with our business and technology growth (Stay ahead of evolving threats and technologies).

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience (5-7 years) in security engineering/implementation for cloud-based and SaaS environments, ideally multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Deep knowledge of cloud security, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, key management, secrets management, firewalls, and security tooling architecture (SIEM, EDR, logging/monitoring).
• Hands-on scripting or automation skills (e.g. Python, PowerShell, Terraform scripts, Yara) to implement security automations, detection rules, and guardrails.
• Solid experience with designing, implementing, and tuning systems for incident response, detection engineering, and vulnerability management.
• Strong understanding of secure software development lifecycle (SDLC), and ability to work closely with dev/ops teams to engineer and embed security controls.
• Knowledge of Windows, Linux, and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, able to anticipate threats, model attacks, and propose robust technical mitigations.
• Strong communication skills to explain security issues, risks, and technical mitigations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and lead 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 other cloud-security credentials).

The Longer Story
OutSystems enables enterprise teams to build AI-powered applications and agents that reduce manual work, streamline internal operations, and accelerate impact. A proven low-code foundation combined with agentic AI and AI app generation capabilities empowers teams to move up to 10x faster with the assurance of security, scalability, and governance built in.

As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities—but inside the enterprise, things are moving fast and feeling chaotic. Some early adopters are making progress in production, but for many, AI tools are sprawling without governance, data isn't ready, and talent isn't there yet. Enterprises are still drowning in application backlogs and struggling with legacy systems. But with the right platform, AI doesn't have to add to the chaos. It can become the breakthrough that brings clarity—and drives real, enterprise-wide impact. At OutSystems, we've built that platform, providing the tools necessary for enterprises to overcome these hurdles.

We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us in helping our customers build, deploy, and scale apps and agents—fast, helping them accelerate innovation while enabling secure, governed human-AI collaboration.

OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 850,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.

Amongst our customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries—brands like Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA. These customers are the reason we have a 4.6 star rating on G2. Their success is ours, and their stories demonstrate tangible ROI and transformational impact. We are a 9x Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Low-Code Application Platforms and a multi-year leader in the Forrester Wave. We're recognized not just as leaders but as visionaries with a strong ability to execute, now extending our leadership into the AI and agentic application development arena.

Working at OutSystems
Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in doing excellent work to pursue our vision of providing the AI-powered low-code development platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their business applications, agents, and core systems. Our culture is focused on our core values of trust, customer success, innovation, and alignment. Our team members operate with transparency, integrity, and accountability, define success through the lens of the outcomes we deliver for our customers, push the boundaries with excellence, and work together toward our shared vision to deliver on what matters most.

What do we have to offer you?

• A company that is always growing, changing, and innovating. We challenge each other to innovate in our products, in our team, and how we use our own technology. And we give our teams space to be proactive and creative.
• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Yes, vertical career progression is a possibility, but it's not the only one. From lateral moves and joining different teams to mastering specialized skills, we support your growth no matter what your goals are.
• Work colleagues that are as smart, hard-working, and driven as you. We act as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership and working together toward a shared vision.
• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it's why our company exists.
• We ask "why" a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we'd love to hear from you

OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.