Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer (APAC, EMEA, or US)

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. The Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer will lead initiatives to ensure the security of GitLab's cloud infrastructure, driving business outcomes through effective security practices and collaboration with engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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")

Requirements:

• 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