Director, Security Engineering (Platform Security) - GitLab None Bookmark Share Print 81 0 0

Listing Description

This position is remote based.


The Director of Platform Security, Application Security role extends the Security Manager role.


The Director of Security, Platform Security will lead a globally distributed, growing team of Security Engineers, Data Engineers, and Managers. This reports to the CISO.


Responsibilities



  • Drives strategy for the Platform Security Engineering organization, aligned with broader GitLab business initiatives, with a specific focus on production security services, data security engineering, applied machine learning, and security automation.

  • Hire a world class team of managers, security analysts, security engineers, and security researchers. 

  • Drive quarterly OKRs

  • Promote new and innovative security features for GitLab’s product and services

  • Evaluate and improve security of GitLab’s CI/CD pipeline

  • Work to scope and plan key deliverables with business stakeholders and development teams to ensure successful delivery

  • Build strong, collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders

  • Ensure our engineers and contributors from the wider community run a secure software development lifecycle for GitLab by training them in best practices and creating automated tools.


Requirements



  • 8+ years of experience leading teams of Engineers, Security Researchers, and Managers. Preferably, experience leading remote globally distributed teams 

  • Experience leading teams responsible for backend (or full stack) software development, data engineering, distributed systems, applied cryptography, machine learning, and security automation

  • Strong commitment to talent development, training and coaching to acquire and retain key security talent

  • Significant engineering and SaaS security experience in production-level settings

  • Familiarity with secure software development best practices in Ruby, Go, and the common components underlying 

  • Experience with monorepos and CI best practices working with large code repositories

  • Considerable knowledge of operating SaaS products and services and containerized workloads

  • You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

  • Leadership at GitLab

  • Ability to use GitLab


Performance Indicators


Security Management has the following job-family performance indicators.



Compensation


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Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.


 

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Listing Details

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  • Travel: Not Provided
  • Telework: Not Provided



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