Director of Engineering, Security FactoryActive

The opportunity

The Security Factory group builds the customer-facing security capabilities of GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. The organization includes nine teams working across proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection, agentic remediation, research, vulnerability management, and…

What you'll do

  • Set the engineering vision and multi-quarter roadmap across teams working on: proprietary scanners, AI-driven security workflows, research functions, vulnerability management, and security foundations.

  • Lead a distributed engineering organization of managers and individual: contributors, with a focus on team performance, engagement, and career development.

  • Drive architectural decisions for AI and machine learning detection engines,: agentic remediation flows, and scalable scanning infrastructure.

  • Partner with product management to define priorities, shape requirements, and: deliver security capabilities for customers in regulated and security-conscious environments.

  • Own the engineering delivery of GitLab’s proprietary application security: scanners, agentic remediation workflows, and AI Security Research efforts.

  • Represent the Security Factory stage in cross-functional planning, executive: reviews, security disclosures, and customer conversations.

What they're looking for

  • Establish engineering standards for delivery, observability, incident: response, scanner quality, and code quality.
  • Contribute to GitLab’s transparent, async-first way of working through: issues, merge requests, and the GitLab handbook.