Senior Manager, Product Security Engineering (Security Posture & Supply Chain)

GitLab; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Manager of the Security Posture Management team within the Product Security Department. You will lead the team securing GitLab's software factory, setting priorities, and enabling engineers to work securely at scale.

You will own direction, delivery, and growth of the team, driving governance, proactive supply chain security, and evidence for audits. This role emphasizes leadership, strategy, and measurable security impact.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a security or engineering team (hiring, performance, career development).
• Fluency in security posture management and software supply chain security at scale.
• Ability to translate security requirements into practical controls for engineering teams.
• Experience producing control evidence for audits, certifications, or maturity assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive, governed rollouts of GitLab's security capabilities across the estate.
• Set security baselines to accelerate engineering while ensuring secure defaults.
• Serve as Customer Zero for security features and feed adoption insights to Product & Engineering.
• Establish proactive software supply chain security and SBOM governance.
• Reduce systemic risk across groups and namespaces; manage risk registers and dashboards.
• Collaborate with Compliance to provide audit-ready evidence of controls.

Skills

Security leadership

Security posture management

Software supply chain security

Secure configuration

Hiring & career development

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

* Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As the Senior Manager of the Security Posture Management (SPM) team within the Product Security Department , you lead the team that secures GitLab's own software factory: the estate we build and ship from. Your team drives comprehensive, governed rollouts of GitLab's security capabilities across every project, applying our own product the way our customers do, and builds proactive software supply chain security as a first-class capability within Product Security.

This is Customer Zero work with real reach. Where the team hits friction adopting our own features at scale, that signal goes straight to Product and Engineering as an early read on what customers will experience. Where it succeeds, it becomes the story of how GitLab secures its own software factory, told publicly and used by our go-to-market teams.

You will own the direction, delivery, and growth of this team. You set priorities toward the highest-leverage work, build the team out while it is still forming, and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work.

What You'll Do

• Lead comprehensive, governed rollouts of GitLab's own security capabilities across the estate, bringing every project into alignment with our Project Security Configuration Standard and keeping it there.
• Set a security baseline that accelerates engineering rather than gating it, so teams inherit secure defaults and paved paths instead of negotiating requirements project by project.
• Serve as Customer Zero for GitLab's security features: capture where adoption at scale is hard, and feed that evidence to Product and Engineering as a leading indicator of customer sentiment and a driver of roadmap decisions.
• Establish proactive software supply chain security as a first-class capability in Product Security, including third party component governance, trusted dependency controls, and the requirements behind product-level SBOMs.
• Reduce systemic risk across our own groups and namespaces, including lateral movement and token governance.
• Own the operations of the Product Security Risk Register and the metrics and dashboards that give the department a single, data-driven view of our posture.
• Partner with Compliance to produce evidence of our security control implementation for audits, certifications, and internal security maturity assessments, so the same work that hardens the estate also satisfies the auditors.
• Represent this work externally, contributing thought leadership on how GitLab secures its own software factory that strengthens our go-to-market narrative and customer trust.
• Lead, coach, and grow the team, and shape how it operates as it forms.

What You'll Bring

• Experience managing a security or engineering team, including hiring, performance, and career development.
• Technical fluency across security posture management, software supply chain security, and secure configuration of a large SaaS estate, enough to guide prioritization, coach the team, and get hands-on when necessary.
• A track record of driving broad, governed rollouts of security capability across an engineering organization you do not own, and sustaining adoption after launch.
• Experience translating security requirements into controls that engineering teams can meet without slowing down.
• Familiarity with producing control evidence for audit, certification, or maturity assessment, and partnering with Compliance or GRC counterparts.
• Ability to drive measurable impact under high ambiguity, including building the organizational buy-in to get there.
• Ability to break large problems into iterative wins that ship and compound.
• Sound jud