Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer (USA) at GitLab

Role overview

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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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 the resiliency and security expectations that our customers — including the U.S. public sector — rely on to power their DevSecOps goals.

As a Staff Security Engineer, you will serve as the technical lead for the infrastructure security of our GitLab Dedicated for Government offering and the broader FedRAMP environment that supports it. You will define the technical direction for how we secure our Federal platform, set the patterns the team uses to operate it, and influence how those patterns extend into our other SaaS platforms (e.g. GitLab Dedicated, Cells) and Self-Managed offerings. You will combine hands-on execution with influence that reaches into partner engineering teams, driving business outcomes by ensuring that we pragmatically implement security capabilities into the platform that empowers critical software factories — including those operated by the U.S. government and its mission partners.

Due to government requirements, you must be a United States Citizen (defined as any individual who is a citizen of the United States by law, birth, or naturalization) to fill this position, and you must be based in the United States.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law . If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction, architectural patterns, reference implementations, and foundational security automation that shape how infrastructure security is implemented for GitLab's FedRAMP environment, and influence how those patterns are adopted across our broader Dedicated and Self-Managed offerings
• Own the security posture of GitLab's FedRAMP environment as the senior technical voice, partnering with the Public Sector SRE team as a stable counterpart
• Lead infrastructure security initiatives from problem framing through delivery, scoping ambiguous multi-quarter work — including FedRAMP continuous monitoring, control implementation, and authorization-impacting changes — into executable streams with clear success criteria
• Conduct and lead comprehensive security reviews and threat modeling for complex infrastructure components in the Federal environment, identifying systemic risks and driving remediation across affected systems
• Set the team's approach to AI-assisted security engineering within the constraints of a FedRAMP-authorized environment, identifying where AI can meaningfully increase leverage and establishing patterns others can adopt
• Serve as an authoritative technical voice for Federal Infrastructure Security across our stakeholders — including engineering, compliance, and senior leadership — translating architectural tradeoffs and FedRAMP control implications into clear decisions
• Partner on technical planning, prioritization, and roadmap development to align infrastructure security work with the business objectives of our Public Sector offering
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, raising the technical bar and modeling inclusive collaboration
• Fulfill the Product Security Division Mission of securing GitLab Infrastructure with our own product ("dogfooding")
• Proof of U.S. citizenship and U.S. residency
• Expert knowledge of security for cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes) and related infrastructure and data security topics
• Deep working knowledge of FedRAMP (Moderate and/or High) and the operational realities of running and continuously monitoring an authorized environment; familiarity with adjacent frameworks and standards (NIST 800-53, FIPS 140-2/3, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
• 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 — particularly in support of regulated environments
• Hands-on experience applying AI to security workflows, with a point of view on where it creates meaningful leverage in compliance-constrained environments
• Track record of leading multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguous problem statements to measurable outcomes, setting technical direction that peer teams adopt

Qualifications

• 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 and compliance tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and assessors
• Share our values , and work in accordance with those values
• Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

Technology in this role

• Python: Python AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• AWS: Python AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Azure: Python AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• GCP: Python AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Kubernetes: Python AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Go: Python AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Ruby: familiarity with adjacent frameworks and standards (NIST 800-53, FIPS 140-2/3, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS) Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby) with a track record of delivering production-quality security tooling Extensive experience with .
• Terraform: familiarity with adjacent frameworks and standards (NIST 800-53, FIPS 140-2/3, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS) Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby) with a track record of delivering production-quality security tooling Extensive experience with .
• Ansible: familiarity with adjacent frameworks and standards (NIST 800-53, FIPS 140-2/3, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS) Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby) with a track record of delivering production-quality security tooling Extensive experience with .
• CAN: Set the technical direction, architectural patterns, reference implementations, and foundational security automation that shape how infrastructure security is implemented for GitLab's FedRAMP environment, and influence how those patterns are adopted across our broader Dedicated .

Benefits

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About GitLab

The Platform Readiness team is part of GitLab Developer Experience, building internal developer tooling capability for platform readiness across GitLab's four deployment targets: Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government, and GitLab.com. We partner with platform teams, feature teams, and product management to ensure every feature is evaluated against platform readiness requirements before it ships.

Current challenges we're tackling:

Moving from manual coordination to embedded automation: Transitioning from manual, ad-hoc platform readiness assessments to automated, agentic evaluation while maintaining human oversight and trust

Building a structured, machine-readable requirements body: Evolving the platform requirements schema to capture the full scope of platform readiness concerns across all domains and platforms

Making platform readiness native to the tools feature teams already use: Enabling platform teams to contribute domain expertise and validation logic without requiring deep Platform Readiness infrastructure knowledge

Building the measurement systems to know we're working: Creating observability and evaluation frameworks that give us confidence in agentic-workflow decisions and surface failures early

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