Director of Engineering, Security Factory

What You’ll Do:

• 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, with a focus on team performance, engagement, and career development.
• Drive architectural decisions for AI and machine learning detection engines, agentic remediation flows, and scalable scanning infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring:

• 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.
• Direct experience shipping a customer-facing AI or machine learning product feature tied to detection or remediation quality outcomes.

About the Team:

• The Security Factory group builds the customer-facing security capabilities of GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
• The organization includes nine teams working across proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection, agentic remediation, research, vulnerability management, and security foundations.
• The team collaborates asynchronously across regions with product management and other cross-functional partners.