Principal Software Engineer

There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!

Who are we?

We provide the agentic systems platform that enterprise leaders trust to build and secure their applications, agents, and mission critical systems.

Release Engineering owns the pipelines, controls and release infrastructure every OutSystems release passes through, so security and availability are built into how we ship.

How can you help us?

We are hiring a Principal Engineer to own the technical strategy for securing the inner loop of our delivery: the images, repositories, registries and developer workflows that every build starts from.

The work is concrete. Base images reach our builds through several registries, and their provenance has to be consistent across all of them. Our GitHub organization operates under governance and DLP controls that are still maturing. Security findings need to reach engineers inside their workflow, early enough to act on and tuned so that signal beats noise. You would own how these fit together and build a meaningful part of it yourself.

In this role you are expected to:

• Own the technical strategy for inner-loop security across R&D: set direction, make the trade-off calls, and bring engineering, product and security leadership along.
• Stay hands-on. Design and build what you architect (base image pipelines, registry policy, GitHub automation, IaC modules, security tooling), own critical paths yourself, and work in the code alongside the team.
• Own the base image supply: hardened image provenance, lifecycle and rebuild automation, so every build starts from a known-good foundation.
• Govern the registries: what can be pushed, pulled and promoted, by whom, and with what provenance, so nothing reaches a build outside the governed path.
• Own GitHub governance: organization-level policy, access and DLP controls, repository standards, and the automation that keeps hundreds of repositories compliant without slowing engineers down.
• Build security into the SDLC from the start: automated SAST, DAST, SCA and secrets detection in developer workflows, tuned to keep false positives low.
• Produce the provenance and evidence the release path depends on, so verification at deploy time is automatic rather than manual.
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives that raise engineering standards across the organization, and lead architecture and design reviews at a strategic level.
• Mentor engineers at every level, beyond your immediate team.
• Apply AI and agents to how release and security engineering work gets done.
Write the standards others build against: security baselines, IaC patterns, repository and image standards, based on what you have implemented yourself.

What you need to succeed in this job

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• You have owned the security of a source-to-build platform (repositories, images, registries, developer tooling) end to end, at scale, for a large engineering organization.
• Deep security engineering background: software supply chain security at the source (hardened images, registry governance, provenance), SDLC security gating, secrets management and source control governance.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub at organization scale: policies, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security or equivalent, and API-driven automation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container tooling, a major cloud (Azure and/or AWS), CI/CD at scale, Terraform, and modern SDLC languages (Python, .NET).
• Working knowledge of SOC 2 Type 2 and FedRAMP Moderate, including how their controls apply to source control and build integrity.
• A track record of cross-team technical leadership and mentoring without formal management authority.
• Working hours with meaningful overlap with our European teams, and willingness to work across time zones.
Fluency in English, written and spoken, and excellent communication skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with hardened base image distributions (such as Chainguard), SLSA, Sigstore or SBOM tooling in production.
• Experience building agentic systems or AI agents applied to developer workflows.
Experience in platform engineering or developer experience for large engineering organizations.

What do we have to offer you?

• A company that keeps growing, changing and innovating, with room for teams to be proactive and creative.
• Career opportunities, including promotions and moves to other teams in the company.
• Colleagues who are smart, hardworking and driven, spread across the globe.
We work to four company values: Trust, Customer Success, Innovation and Alignment. We act as one global OutSystems team, which for this role means working as one with your counterpart in Portugal.

To see what working in OutSystems Engineering is like, follow our day-to-day work and technical challenges on our engineering channels.

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

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.