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GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations boost developer productivity, security, and digital transformation, and it emphasizes AI as a core productivity multiplier in daily workflows within a high-performance, inclusive culture. As a Senior Security Engineer on GitLab’s Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), you will defend GitLab.com in a 24/7 global on-call model, lead end-to-end incidents from detection to recovery, and scale security operations through automation and AI-driven workflows. You’ll coordinate high-severity incident responses, prepare executive communications, conduct complex cloud DFIR investigations, partner with Signals Engineering to design detections, build runbooks, perform post-incident RCA, and mentor other engineers to raise incident response maturity. Qualifications include strong cloud-first incident response experience, hands-on GitLab usage in security/engineering, SIEM/EDR/detection engineering, AWS and GCP familiarity, threat intelligence and MITRE ATT&CK knowledge, automation skills (Python, SOAR), and an interest in applying AI/ML to detection and response. The role is with a globally distributed SIRT across AMER, APAC, and EMEA; GitLab offers remote roles with comprehensive benefits and a strong commitment to equal opportunity, privacy, and location guidelines.

GitLab is an intelligent DevSecOps platform that helps organizations increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation, trusted by 50 million+ registered users and more than half of the Fortune 100. The company treats AI as a core productivity multiplier and expects all team members to incorporate AI into daily workflows, fostering a high-performance, values-driven culture where every voice is valued. The Director of Engineering, Security Factory will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab’s customer-facing security capabilities across the AI-powered platform, guiding nine teams that build proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and security foundations. Responsibilities include setting the engineering vision and multi-quarter roadmap, driving architectural decisions for AI/ML detection and remediation, partnering with product management, owning delivery of scanners and AI security research, and representing the Security Factory in cross-functional planning, executive reviews, security disclosures, and customer conversations. The Security Factory team operates asynchronously across regions; GitLab offers benefits such as flexible PTO, equity, parental leave, growth opportunities, and an inclusive, equal-opportunity policy that welcomes candidates with varying levels of experience and provides accommodations as needed.