Director of Engineering, Security Factory

GitLab
Israel, United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Manufacturing & Production OperationsSkills: ["Written communication","Collaborative leadership","Team performance management","Career development","Cross-functional partnership"]

Lead the engineering organization for customer-facing security capabilities across GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. Drive the multi-quarter roadmap for proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation workflows, and supporting security foundations. Manage a distributed group of nine teams, set architecture and delivery standards, partner with product management on regulated-environment requirements, and represent Security Factory in planning, executive reviews, and customer conversations.

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GitLab
2 months ago

Director of Engineering, Security Factory

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering organization for customer-facing security capabilities across GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform. Drive the multi-quarter roadmap for proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation workflows, and supporting security foundations. Manage a distributed group of nine teams, set architecture and delivery standards, partner with product management on regulated-environment requirements, and represent Security Factory in planning, executive reviews, and customer conversations.
Location: Israel, United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Manufacturing & Production Operations
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the engineering vision and multi-quarter roadmap across teams building proprietary scanners, AI-driven security workflows, research, vulnerability management, and security foundations.
  • •Lead a distributed engineering organization of managers and individual contributors, focusing 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 engineering delivery of proprietary application security scanners, agentic remediation workflows, and AI Security Research efforts, including establishing delivery and quality standards.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveParental LeaveEquityLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading engineering organizations with multiple teams and managers in a distributed environment.
  • •Strong understanding of application security fundamentals, including SAST, Software Composition Analysis, secret detection, vulnerability management, and software supply chain security.
  • •Experience building detection, analysis, or scanning systems in a SaaS or DevSecOps environment, including trade-offs across precision, recall, latency, and scale.
  • •Direct experience shipping customer-facing AI or machine learning product features 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.
Experience:DevSecOpsSaaSApplication security
Skills:Written communicationCollaborative leadershipTeam performance managementCareer developmentCross-functional partnership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AIMachine learningAgentic AI

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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