Director of Engineering, GitLab
Security Factory
Offers equity and ESPP
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Offers equity and ESPP
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
- Experience leading engineering organizations with multiple teams and managers in a distributed environment
- Strong understanding of application security fundamentals, including Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, secret detection, vulnerability management workflows, and software supply chain security
- Experience building detection, analysis, or scanning systems in a software as a service or DevSecOps environment, including trade-offs across precision, recall, latency, and scale
- Direct experience shipping a customer-facing AI or machine learning product feature tied to detection or remediation quality outcomes
- Ability to partner closely with product management on roadmap planning, prioritization, and requirements in a product-led context
- Strong written communication skills and comfort leading through clear documentation in a remote, async-first organization
- Collaborative leadership style that supports teams, gives direct feedback, and aligns with GitLab’s values
- Familiarity with agentic AI systems, AI agent orchestration, threat intelligence research, or open source security tooling is useful, and we welcome candidates with adjacent or transferable experience
- Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement
What the job involves
- As Director of Engineering, Security Factory, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab’s customer-facing security capabilities across our AI-powered DevSecOps platform
- You’ll help shape how customers detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across modern software workflows by guiding teams that build proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and supporting security foundations
- Reporting to the VP of Engineering, Sec section, you’ll set the engineering vision and roadmap for a distributed group of nine teams, including engineering managers, and create the conditions for strong delivery, sound technical direction, and healthy team growth
- Advanced proprietary scanners for Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, Secret Detection, and related AI and machine learning detection engines
- Agentic security flows for autofix and guided remediation, plus research that strengthens AI security, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and security foundations
- 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
- 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
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: $434.6m
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
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)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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