Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer (APAC, EMEA)

GitLab

2h•Remote

About The Position

As a member of the Infrastructure Security Team within the Product Security Department, you will work with teams across GitLab to ensure that the components that comprise our public cloud infrastructure are built from the beginning with resiliency and set security expectations that our customers rely on to power their DevSecOps goals. As a Staff Security Engineer, you will serve as a technical lead across the topics the Infrastructure Security team owns, including our SaaS Platforms (e.g. GitLab Dedicated, Cells) and Self-Managed offerings. You will define the technical direction for how the team approaches infrastructure security topics and combine hands-on execution with influence that reaches into partner engineering teams. You’ll drive business outcomes by ensuring that we pragmatically implement security capabilities into the platform that empowers critical software factories globally.

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

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")