Staff Product Security Architect

📋 Description

• Partner with engineering and product leadership across GitLab, developing enough context in their
• Lead security architecture and design work for strategic initiatives, and provide direction to the
• Identify, assess, and prioritise systemic security risks, and act as Security Owner for
• Codify recurring security decisions into reusable artifacts — guardrails, standards, design
• Build proofs of concept and prototypes to unblock engineering teams and shorten the distance
• Conduct security architecture reviews for large or strategic projects, and coordinate with

🎯 Requirements

• Depth in application security architecture, including authentication and authorization models
• Experience securing distributed systems, including service-to-service authentication, secrets
• Working knowledge of software supply chain security: build and release integrity, artifact
• A track record of proactive architecture work — identifying risk before it becomes an incident, and
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with engineering leadership and influence
• Experience defining security standards or patterns that teams adopted without being compelled to

🎁 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