Staff Product Security Architect

An overview of this role

We are hiring a Staff Product Security Architect to join our Security Platforms and Architecture organization at GitLab.

Rather than operating as a purely consultative body, Security Architecture at GitLab functions as a hands-on technical driver. Our mission is to embed proactive guidance directly into modern developer workflows and automated coding environments, embedding security standards into the software development process from the outset. We strive to enable teams to deliver secure, resilient software seamlessly while minimizing reliance on manual security gates.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with product engineering organizations, spearhead architectural strategy for critical capabilities, and serve as the primary Security Owner driving risk reduction for key entries within our risk management framework. Your daily work will span architectural design reviews, technical prototyping, and establishing scalable patterns that enable engineering teams to execute autonomously.

What you’ll do  

• Partner with engineering and product leadership across GitLab, developing enough context in their domains to anticipate security problems rather than react to them
• Lead security architecture and design work for strategic initiatives, and provide direction to the cross-functional teams delivering them
• Identify, assess, and prioritise systemic security risks, and act as Security Owner for high-priority items in the Product Security Risk Register, co-executing remediation with the teams who own the code
• Codify recurring security decisions into reusable artifacts — guardrails, standards, design patterns,skills, and reference threat models — delivered into developer and AI coding tool workflows
• Build proofs of concept and prototypes to unblock engineering teams and shorten the distance between a security requirement and a working implementation
• Conduct security architecture reviews for large or strategic projects, and coordinate with Application Security so that review coverage is comprehensive and correctly prioritised
• Threat model new and existing systems, and establish the patterns that let teams threat model their own work
• Work with Security Research on proactive exploration of unknown risks in GitLab's architecture
• Anticipate emerging security challenges and propose architectural respon