Director of Engineering, Security Risk Management at GitLab

Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years Not specified

Education Not specified

Category Cybersecurity

About this role

Director of Engineering, Security Risk Management at GitLab leads the SRM stage transformation into a world-class, enterprise-grade vulnerability analysis and remediation platform, guiding architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers across remote teams.

Key Responsibilities

Technical leadership and architecture for SRM
Transform security risk management platform
Establish observability and performance standards
Mentor senior engineers
Drive ADRs and product collaboration

Technical Overview

Architects distributed, event-driven SRM pipelines for vulnerability data; defines storage and processing for large-security datasets; drives ADRs, observability standards, and security-first engineering culture.

Ideal Candidate

Executive-level security engineer with a track record building and leading SRM platforms for enterprise-scale vulnerability analysis and remediation, capable of transforming engineering culture and driving ADR-led decisions.

Must-Have Skills

Proven track record as an engineering leaderDistributed systems designSecurity risk managementVulnerability analysisPlatform architecture

Required Skills

Distributed systems designsecurity risk managementvulnerability analysisvulnerability managementAPI designobservabilitychaos engineeringADRssecurity toolingengineering leadership

Soft Skills

leadershipengineering culture transformationteam mentorshipcommunicationcollaboration

Industry & Role

Industry Software

Job Function Direct the architecture and engineering of GitLab's Security Risk Management platform for enterprise-scale vulnerability analysis and remediation.

Role Subtype Security Architect

Keywords for Your Resume

director of engineeringsecurity risk managementsrmdistributed systemsvulnerability analysisvulnerability managementsecurity platformobserveabilitychaos engineeringadrapi designsecurity toolinggitlabenterprise-scaleengineering leadershipdevsecopssecurity engineeringobservabilityleadership

Deal Breakers

Must be able to lead at an executive level, Proven experience in security risk management and large-scale vulnerability platforms

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