Title: Security Engineer
Lisbon, PT
At Chain IQ, your ideas move fast.
Chain IQ is a global AI-driven Procurement Service Partner, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with operations across main centers and 16 offices worldwide. We provide tailored, end-to-end procurement solutions that enable transformation, drive scalability, and deliver substantial reductions in our clients' indirect spend. Our culture is built on innovation, entrepreneurship, ownership, and impact. Here, your voice matters - bold thinking is encouraged, and action follows ambition.
We are building a cloud platform where automated workflows, intelligent agents and human users operate together. Security in this environment is not limited to infrastructure. It includes code-level integrity, identity boundaries, data protections, agent behavior constraints and continuous monitoring of new threat surfaces.
This role is for a hands-on engineer who is comfortable working across multiple layers of the stack and who is curious enough to explore new risks created by automation and emerging system patterns. You will help build the controls, guardrails and detection capabilities that keep the platform safe as it evolves.
Responsibilities
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Build and maintain security tooling that integrates directly into developer workflows, including code scanning and dependency analysis
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Implement identity and permission controls for humans, services and automated agents
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Develop automated checks for insecure configurations, risky behaviors and policy violations across environments and applications
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Support secure handling of documents, entities and structured data that drive automated decision processes
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Contribute to runtime protections for agent workflows including action validation, safe execution constraints and human-approval logic
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Work with product and engineering teams to assess new features for emerging security risks, especially where automation interacts with sensitive data
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Enhance detection and monitoring for suspicious patterns across activity logs, agent actions and system outputs
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Investigate alerts and support remediation, with a focus on preventing the issue from recurring through automation or improved controls
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Participate in shaping a modern Security Development Lifecycle suited to rapid iteration and agent-driven behavior
What you will work with
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Modern code scanning tools and SCA platforms for supply chain integrity
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Identity systems and permission models capable of handling multi-party and agent interactions
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CI/CD pipelines that incorporate security gates and automated validations
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Runtime policy enforcement for APIs, workflows and agent actions
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Observability tools that can capture fine-grained activity across humans, services and automated systems
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Data protection mechanisms including classification, masking and controlled access paths
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Threat modelling for automation flows, retrieval systems and cross-tenant data surfaces
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Lightweight design documentation, threat modelling and architecture standards
Requirements
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Experience in security engineering within modern application or platform environments
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Knowledge of identity management, permission models and the challenges they pose in distributed systems
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Familiarity with application security practices including secure coding, code scanning and dependency hygiene
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Ability to investigate complex behaviors that span multiple services, data layers and automation components
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Curiosity about how automation and agent workflows introduce new risk categories
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Strong scripting or coding skills to build internal tools, validate patterns and automate remediation
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Collaboration mindset to engage product, engineering and data teams in improving overall security posture
Why this role matters
The platform processes sensitive commercial, supplier and contract data, and users depend on it for accurate decisions. As we introduce more automation and intelligent workflows, the need for strong, reliable security becomes central to trust and adoption. Both customers and internal teams expect systems that are fast, safe and predictable. This role establishes the security foundation that allows us to innovate quickly while protecting the integrity of our data and the confidence of everyone who relies on the platform.
Join a truly global team.
We offer a dynamic and international environment where high performance meets real purpose. We're proud to be Great Place to Work-certified and even prouder of the people who make that possible. Let’s shape the future of procurement - together.
Chain IQ – Create. Lead. Make an impact.
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