Principal Security Researcher

🕒 6 days ago

🌐 United States, Canada, +2 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇮🇱 Israel – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $203.2k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

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

• Conduct and lead security research projects across multiple functional areas • Identify novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities in GitLab • Validate security vulnerabilities through hands-on testing and develop proof-of-concept exploits • Assess emerging industry vulnerability classes against the GitLab codebase and drive class-level remediation • Lead security research into GitLab's AI and agentic surfaces and define security requirements • Build and direct tooling and automation for security research, including agent-assisted vulnerability discovery • Research the security posture of open source tools and dependencies integrated with GitLab • Report findings to maintainers and track mitigation under responsible disclosure guidelines • Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity • Help shape the team and sub-department roadmap • Lead integration of security research results into engineering and business functions • Teach, mentor, and advise domain experts and individual contributors • Share knowledge and novel vulnerability types with the security community • Report to the Senior Manager of Application Security

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in security research, penetration testing, or offensive security roles • Strong ability in discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in large codebase and complex systems • Proficiency in two or more of Ruby, Go, Python, TypeScript, or Rust • Ability to read and analyze code across multiple languages and codebases • Strong knowledge of AI frameworks • Strong understanding of AI attack vectors including prompt injection, agent manipulation, and workflow exploitation • At ease in establishing and driving complex remediation initiatives involving cross-functional teams • Excellent written communication skills with an ability to articulate complex topics in a clear and concise manner • Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear risk assessments and remediation recommendations • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with creative thinking about attack scenarios • Nice to Have: Published security research or conference presentations; background in software engineering with distributed systems expertise; experience with GitLab or similar DevSecOps platforms

🏖️ 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