Platform Security Engineer

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🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

💵 €50k - €67k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Coverflex

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51 - 200 employees

🛡️ Insurance

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

💰 Series A on 2023-02

Insurance • Healthcare • Consulting

Coverflex is a company that offers a fully remote work environment with a strong emphasis on building a unique and diverse team culture. They provide a range of employee benefits including health insurance, competitive compensation with stock options, and significant budgets for personal and professional development. Coverflex also focuses on transparency, integrity, and maintaining a positive work-life balance, offering generous time off policies and remote work budgets. They are recognized as a top employer and are committed to equal opportunity employment.

📋 Description

• Own platform and application security for Coverflex's production cloud environment • Bring security expertise to DevX, the team building the platform and paved road for engineers • Build secure-by-default workflows for production operations with controlled, auditable access • Shape security priorities, response targets, and automation in the delivery pipeline • Lead resilience exercises and improve recovery playbooks • Share wider DevX work across infrastructure, CI/CD, developer tooling and experience, observability, and incident troubleshooting • Improve security posture and developer experience without slowing developer throughput or impacting platform users • Deliver production-grade improvements using safe rollout patterns and tight feedback loops • Increase production operations through secure, self-service, observable tooling • Ensure security findings are caught early and resolved quickly through automation • Maintain business continuity with clear recovery targets tested regularly • Improve edge protection while maintaining a smooth user experience • Drive adoption of security guardrails across engineering teams • Collaborate with the Platform Engineering team and key stakeholders • Participate in daily standups, weekly planning, and bi-weekly retrospectives

🎯 Requirements

• Owned application or platform security in a production cloud environment, with clear examples of impact • Strong cloud security fundamentals, including IAM and identity plumbing (SSO/OIDC), secrets management, and least privilege • Strong platform engineering across infrastructure as code, CI/CD with security built in, and observability • Strong experience running Kubernetes in production, including workload security and access controls • Cloud networking and edge experience: VPC boundaries, DNS, TLS, load balancing, CDN and WAF tuning • Reliability experience with SLOs, on-call, threat modelling, incident command, and postmortems • Backup, restore and disaster recovery designed and actually exercised • Treats the platform as a product; measures adoption and developer experience • Uses AI tooling to accelerate engineering work and builds it into the platform (agents, MCP, assisted operations) • Reads and writes code well enough to fix problems, not just report them • Fluent English required • Nice-to-have: ISO 27001, SOC 2 or DORA experience • Nice-to-have: Fintech, payroll, or other regulated-data background • Nice-to-have: Detection engineering or SIEM experience • Nice-to-have: PostgreSQL operations and safe schema migrations • Nice-to-have: Elixir or comfort picking up a functional language • Nice-to-have: Cloud cost awareness and FinOps practices • Certifications welcome, but practical evidence weighs more

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity: Stock Options under our Equity Incentive Plan • All Coverflex benefits apply • Fully remote setup with on-site get-togethers at least once a year • Coverflex card • MacBook • €500 onboarding budget for workstation setup • €1,000 yearly FlexBudget for professional development and remote work enablement • Health Insurance plans, with the option to add family members and update conditions (depending on country) • 25 paid vacation days per year • 3 caring days per year to work on side projects supporting positive-impact causes • 2 additional paid weeks on top of the legal maximum Parental Leave • Employee's birthday and children's birthdays off