Principal AI Security Researcher - DevSecOps Platform

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 203,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Principal Security Researcher to join the Application Security team to conduct cutting-edge security research on GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps capabilities. You will proactively identify and validate vulnerabilities before they affect our platform and customers.

In this role, you'll lead security research on the GitLab DevSecOps platform, develop novel testing methodologies, perform hands-on penetration testing, and translate threats into actionable security improvements

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security research, penetration testing, or offensive security roles.
• Ability to identify vulnerabilities in large codebases and complex systems.
• Strong knowledge of AI frameworks and AI security concepts.
• Experience with two or more languages: Ruby, Go, Python, TS, or Rust.
• Excellent written communication skills to articulate complex topics.
• Ability to drive remediation initiatives with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and lead security research projects across multiple functional areas.
• Identify novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities in GitLab, where individual weaknesses combine for outsized impact.
• Validate security vulnerabilities through hands-on testing, developing proof-of-concept exploits that demonstrate real-world attack scenarios.
• Assess emerging industry vulnerability classes against the GitLab codebase, and drive remediation of the class rather than the instance.
• Lead security research into GitLab's AI and agentic surfaces, and define the security requirements that engineering teams build against.
• Build and direct the tooling and automation that scales security research, including agent-assisted vulnerability discovery across our codebase.
• Research the security posture of open source tools and dependencies integrated with GitLab, report findings to their maintainers, and track mitigation following our responsible disclosure guidelines.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity.
• Help shape the team and sub-department roadmap.
• Lead the integration of security research results into the engineering and business functions that need to act on them.
• Teach, mentor, and advise other domain experts and individual contributors across several teams.
• Share knowledge and novel vulnerability types with the security community.

Skills

Security research

Vulnerability discovery

AI frameworks

Ruby

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Code analysis

Communication

Tools

Ruby

Go

Python

TypeScript

Rust

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Principal Security Researcher to join the Application Security team to conduct cutting-edge security research on GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps capabilities. You will proactively identify and validate vulnerabilities before they affect our platform and customers.

In this role, you'll lead security research on the GitLab DevSecOps platform, develop novel testing methodologies, perform hands-on penetration testing, and translate threats into actionable security improvements