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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