Drimva

GitLab

Staff Product Security Architect

$168K–$238K

Remote, Canada +4 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026

Location
Remote, Canada
Remote, Israel
Remote, Poland
Remote, United Kingdom
Remote, United States

About the job

Leads hands-on product security architecture for GitLab’s Core DevOps area, reducing systemic risks through design guidance, prototypes, and reusable security patterns integrated into developer workflows.

What you'll do

  • Lead security architecture for strategic initiatives, assess systemic risks, and co-execute remediation with engineering teams.
  • Create reusable security standards, guardrails, threat models, and prototypes for developer and AI coding workflows.
  • Review and threat-model systems, coordinate with Application Security, and mentor security engineers.

What they ask for

  • Deep application security architecture knowledge, including authentication, authorization, privilege escalation, multi-tenant isolation, and trust boundaries.
  • Experience securing distributed systems and working knowledge of software supply chain security.
  • Track record of proactive architecture work and ability to influence engineering teams and establish adopted security patterns.
  • Ability to work strategically and hands-on, including reading unfamiliar code and building prototypes; clear written communication.

Pay

$168,000 — $238,000 USD (base salary)

AI focus

Develop and deliver security guidance, standards, and patterns in AI coding tool workflows; incorporate security guidance into automated coding environments.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)