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.

• Hiring actual vs plan


• Diversity


• Handbook update frequency


• Team member retention


• HackerOne spend actual vs planned

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

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

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

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