Director Security Engineer | DevSecOps

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About Wellhub

At Wellhub we're revolutionizing workplace wellness. Our platform connects employees worldwide to the best partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep—all in one simple subscription.

We are hiring a Director of Security Engineering for our Information Security team in Portugal. This is a Remote – Portugal position.

The Information Security team is responsible for protecting our subscription-based product serving millions of users. As a Director of Security Engineering, you will be the technical leader driving application security, DevSecOps practices, and security engineering across our 10 product verticals.

Your Impact

• Lead the technical security strategy for product and application security, defining architecture standards, security baselines, and secure coding guidelines aligned with OWASP ASVS, NIST SSDF, and BSIMM frameworks.
• Architect and implement a comprehensive DevSecOps pipeline, integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, and container scanning across all CI/CD pipelines serving 10 product verticals.
• Drive threat modeling practices across critical product flows, partnering with engineering leads to identify and mitigate security risks before they reach production.
• Design and implement a centralized security telemetry architecture, connecting application logs, WAF events, and fraud signals into a unified SIEM platform for real-time detection.
• Lead the technical evaluation, selection, and implementation of security tools (SAST/DAST, SIEM/SOAR, PAM, API Gateway security, container security scanners).
• Establish and mentor a team of 7-8 embedded DevSecOps engineers across product verticals, providing technical guidance and ensuring consistent security standards.
• Own the technical roadmap for reducing MTTD from >48h to <1h and fraud detection from D+1 to real-time through security engineering and automation.
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment.