Grupo QuintoAndar | Staff Security Engineer

About Grupo QuintoAndar

We are Grupo QuintoAndar, the largest real estate ecosystem in Latin America. Guided by a shared purpose of helping people love where they live, we have a diversified portfolio of brands and solutions across different countries in Latin America, covering all phases of the housing journey. We also have a Technology Hub in Portugal. We develop technology and innovation to transform and enhance the overall living experience.

With the support of a world-class team of investors and advisors, including Kaszek, Qualcomm, General Atlantic, and SoftBank, Grupo QuintoAndar is currently valued at over USD 5.1 billion and continues to grow year over year.

Here, you will work with top professionals in the market, in an environment that breathes innovation, collaboration, and high performance. To learn more about our story, visit: https://grupoquintoandar.com/pt/.

Location & Remote Work for technology and remote-first roles

Our technology team operates under a "remote-first" model, which means we work from home and can live anywhere in Brazil. We also offer the option of working from our São Paulo offices or partner coworking spaces, up to twice a week.

Hiring Process Stages

The stages of our hiring processes aim to assess your experiences and allow you to meet our teams and explore career opportunities. They are structured as follows:

• People interview
• Tech screening 
• Tech interview 
• Hiring Committee

About the Role

We’re hiring a Staff Security Engineer to lead the resolution of complex security problems and drive strategic, end-to-end initiatives. This is a hands-on role with cross-functional impact across Software Engineering, SRE, Data, AI/ML, Product, and Operations, connecting technical decisions to business outcomes.

You’ll work on challenges that require deep technical expertise, systems thinking, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to lead without formal authority by building alignment, setting standards, and raising the company’s security maturity.

Responsabilities

• Turn fixes into standards: build guardrails, paved roads, and hardening to reduce exceptions and make the secure path the default (security by design).
• Influence architecture decisions with clear trade-offs, reducing risk without slowing delivery.
• Scale secure development practices across applications, APIs, and AI (practical threat modeling and design reviews, CI/CD, IaC, and hardening).
• Mentor and raise the technical bar, spreading best practices and increasing team autonomy.
• Support incident response and continuous improvement (postmortems, corrective actions, recurrence prevention, detection rules, and automations).
• Write crisp documentation (RFCs, standards, guides, and runbooks) and define clear quality and acceptance criteria.

Requirements

• Strong experience in security engineering within technology organizations.
• Proven track record leading complex, end-to-end technical initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong foundation in applied security: threat modeling, AppSec, architecture, IAM, data protection, AI Security, cloud, and observability.
• Experience developing security standards for cloud, microservices/APIs, AI, mobile, CI/CD, and IaC.
• AI-first mindset: uses AI day to day to investigate issues, accelerate analysis and automation, and turn hypotheses into practical, high-quality, secure outcomes.
• Strong communication and influence plus a hands-on mindset: translate risk into practical decisions, drive alignment through execution, and deliver automation/production improvements.

Important

• Our hiring process starts with the application! If you truly want to be part of our team, please complete this step of the process. We analyze all candidates individually and provide feedback to all applicants.

• All communication will be conducted via email, so please stay tuned for our messages and release the domain @quintoandar.com.br to ensure our emails are not sent to spam.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Profit sharing
• Meal allowance 
• Health insurance
• Dental plan
• Life insurance
• Childcare subsidy and Atypical Parenthood subsidy
• Wellhub
• Home office allowance
• Employee assistance program (mental health, social, legal, and financial support)
• Extended parental leave
• Day off on birthday, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day
• Benefits Club (discounts on everyday services)
• Discounts at educational institutions
• Reading kit for children – PlayKids
  
  

Diversity & Inclusion at Grupo QuintoAndar

We value diversity and want everyone to feel welcome here, regardless of their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristic. All our job openings are open to all individuals!

You'll notice there are some diversity questions in the application form. For affirmative action roles, this information may be used to verify your alignment with the target audience for the opportunity. In such cases, it may be used for elimination purposes. For non-affirmative action roles, this data will be used anonymously, exclusively to monitor and improve our inclusion practices in the hiring process, and will have no impact on your application.

Privacy and Data Protection

The Grupo QuintoAndar operates in compliance with privacy and data protection laws, including, but not limited to, the Brazilian General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD) (Law No. 13,709/2018), and ensures the security of your data. To learn more, please access our Privacy Notice for Candidates. For questions or to exercise your rights as a data subject, please contact us through our Service Channel.

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