# Director of Engineering, Security Factory

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Application Security, Static Application Security Testing, Software Composition Analysis, Secret Detection, Vulnerability Management, Software Supply Chain Security, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AI Agents, Threat Intelligence, DevSecOps, Observability, Incident Response, GitLab
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Leads a distributed, multi-team engineering organization building customer-facing security capabilities, including proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection engines, and agentic remediation workflows. The role requires engineering leadership, application security expertise, and experience shipping AI or machine-learning features tied to detection or remediation outcomes.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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, focusing 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 engineering delivery for 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.

## Nice to Have
- Familiarity with agentic AI systems, AI agent orchestration, threat intelligence research, or open source security tooling.
- Adjacent or transferable experience in related security and AI domains.

## Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave

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