Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer, GitLab
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Be an early applicant
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Expert-level knowledge of security for cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes) and related infrastructure and data security topics
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex security concepts into clear, actionable recommendations
- Principal-level technical leadership: ability to set strategy, influence across organizations, and mentor senior engineers
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and operating large distributed systems in a SaaS context
- Track record of leading projects with ambiguous requirements that delivered measurable business impact
- Demonstrated history of driving technical strategy that influenced organization-wide security posture
- Understanding of security certifications, frameworks, and standards, like FedRAMP, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, etc
- Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
- Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application
What the job involves
- As a member of the Infrastructure Security Team within the Product Security Department you will work with teams across GitLab to ensure that the components that comprise our public cloud infrastructure are built from the beginning with the resiliency and security expectations that our customers rely on to power their DevSecOps goals
- As a Principal Engineer, you will collaborate with teams across GitLab to shape the foundation of our future SaaS Platforms (e.g. GitLab Dedicated, Cells) and Self-Managed experience. You will have a wide sphere of influence and responsibility maximizing your impact by working through and with others. You’ll drive business outcomes by ensuring that we pragmatically implement security capabilities into the platform that empowers critical software factories globally
- Independently define multi-year security strategy components for cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, and orchestration platforms, balancing security risk with operational and business requirements
- Design and scope infrastructure security initiatives for the team to execute, breaking down complex problems into actionable work streams with clear success criteria
- Architect and drive implementation of security automation, frameworks, and tooling that become foundational to infrastructure operations (e.g., secrets management, certificate automation, security agents)
- Conduct and lead comprehensive security reviews and threat modeling for complex infrastructure components
- Drive adoption of infrastructure security standards across engineering teams through technical influence, reference implementations, and hands-on enablement
- Quantify and distill architectural tradeoffs into clear decisions for Engineers and Senior Leadership
- Serve as the go-to expert for Infrastructure Security across the company, providing authoritative technical guidance
- Mentor and develop engineers, elevating the technical leadership and modeling inclusive collaboration
- Fulfill the Product Security Division Mission of securing GitLab Infrastructure with our own product (“dogfooding”)
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $435m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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