Director of Engineering, Security Factory
Core
Lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab's customer-facing security capabilities across its AI-powered DevSecOps platform, guiding teams that build proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, and agentic remediation flows.
Role type
Director of Engineering, Security Factory
Builds
Proprietary application security scanners, AI-driven detection engines, agentic remediation workflows, and security foundations for the GitLab platform.
Domain
DevSecOps, Application Security, AI/ML Security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Engineering organization leadership, Application security fundamentals, Building detection/scanning systems, Shipping customer-facing AI/ML products, Product partnership, Async-first written communication, Collaborative leadership
Preferred skills
Agentic AI systems, AI agent orchestration, Threat intelligence research, Open source security tooling
Technologies
Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Secret Detection, AI/ML detection engines, Agentic remediation flows
Responsibilities
Set engineering vision and multi-quarter roadmap, Lead distributed engineering organization, Drive architectural decisions for AI/ML and scanning infrastructure, Partner with product management on security capabilities, Own engineering delivery of security scanners and AI research, Represent Security Factory in cross-functional planning, Establish engineering standards for delivery and quality
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with management