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Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer
Remote Product Security role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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An overview of this role
- Set architectural patterns, reference implementations, and foundational security automation that shape how infrastructure security is implemented across GitLab
- Lead infrastructure security initiatives from problem framing through delivery, scoping ambiguous multi-quarter work into executable streams with clear success criteria
- Conduct and lead comprehensive security reviews and threat modeling for complex infrastructure components, identifying systemic risks and driving remediation across affected systems
- Set the team's approach to AI-assisted security engineering, identifying where AI can meaningfully increase leverage and establishing patterns others can adopt
- Serve as an authoritative technical voice for Infrastructure Security across our stakeholders, translating architectural tradeoffs into clear decisions for engineering teams and senior leadership
- Partner on technical planning, prioritization, and roadmap development to align technical work with business objectives
- Mentor and develop engineers, raising the technical bar and modeling inclusive collaboration
- Fulfill the Product Security Division Mission of securing GitLab Infrastructure with our own product ("dogfooding")
An overview of this role
- Expert knowledge of security for cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes) and related infrastructure and data security topics
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby) with a track record of delivering production-quality security tooling
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-Code security (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation), policy-as-code, and automated compliance
- Hands-on experience applying AI to security workflows, with a point of view on where it creates meaningful leverage
- Track record of leading multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous problem statements to measurable outcomes, setting technical direction that peer teams adopt
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain security tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
- Familiarity with security certifications, frameworks, and standards (FedRAMP, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
- Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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