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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Set the engineering vision and multi-quarter roadmap across teams working on proprietary scanners, AI-driven security workflows, research functions, vulnerability management, and security foundations. • Lead a distributed engineering organization of managers and individual contributors, with a focus 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 the engineering delivery of GitLab’s proprietary application security scanners, agentic remediation workflows, and AI Security Research efforts. • Represent the Security Factory stage in cross-functional planning, executive reviews, security disclosures, and customer conversations. • Establish engineering standards for delivery, observability, incident response, scanner quality, and code quality. • Contribute to GitLab’s transparent, async-first way of working through issues, merge requests, and the GitLab handbook.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading engineering organizations with multiple teams and managers in a distributed environment. • Strong understanding of application security fundamentals, including Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, secret detection, vulnerability management workflows, and software supply chain security. • Experience building detection, analysis, or scanning systems in a software as a service or DevSecOps environment, including trade-offs across precision, recall, latency, and scale. • Direct experience shipping a customer-facing AI or machine learning product feature 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. • Strong written communication skills and comfort leading through clear documentation in a remote, async-first organization. • Collaborative leadership style that supports teams, gives direct feedback, and aligns with GitLab’s values. • Familiarity with agentic AI systems, AI agent orchestration, threat intelligence research, or open source security tooling is useful, and we welcome candidates with adjacent or transferable experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave