Staff Security Compliance Engineer

The GitLab DevOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 1,600+ team members and values that guide a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute.

For members of GitLab's Security Assurance sub department, it is the goal of Security Compliance to:

1. Enable security to scale through the definition of security controls and document the boundaries and applicability of the information security management system to establish its scope.
2. Work across industries to support GitLab customers in their own compliance journey.
3. Identify and mitigate GitLab information security risk through continuous control monitoring and automation.

Security Compliance professionals at GitLab focus on operating our security compliance programs and are proficient in all things security compliance. They are comfortable operating within our transparent compliance programs and understand how compliance works with cloud-native technology stacks.

Staff Security Compliance Engineer

This position reports to the Security Manager, Compliance role at GitLab.

Staff Security Compliance Engineer Job Grade

The {Staff Security Compliance Engineer} is a 8.

Staff Security Compliance Engineer Responsibilities

• The responsibilities of a Senior Security Compliance Engineer, plus;
• Maintain expert knowledge of GitLab's product, environment, systems and architecture while mentoring others on this knowledge and helping to shape designs for the sake of security compliance efficiencies
• Participate in the development and continuous improvement of security compliance metrics

• Provide actionable and constructive advisement to cross-functional teams, to include driving remediation activities for high and select moderate risk Observations across several GitLab departments

• Implement security compliance technical and process improvements
• Mentor other Security Compliance Engineers and improve quality and quantity of the team's output
• Design and implement major iterations on GitLab's security control framework in alignment with industry trends
• Participate in security assurance roadmap development based on customer needs
• Predict future industry trends and demands to position GitLab as an industry expert of Security Compliance and execute initiatives to support these trends
• Create dynamic open-source security compliance programs that deliver value to the GitLab community
• Build the GitLab Security Compliance brand through regular internal and external presentations and publications
• Design, develop, and deploy scripts to automate continuous control monitoring, administrative tasks and metric reporting for all security compliance programs
• Successfully execute on quarterly KRs associated with OKRs

Staff Security Compliance Engineer Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years' experience defining and shaping compliance programs with a minimum of 3 years' experience building new compliance programs
• Proven experience building, maintaining and improving compliance programs from the ground-up
• Proven experience with successful first-time external certification and attestation audits
• Demonstrated experience with at least six security control frameworks (e.g. SOC 2, ISO, NIST, COSO, COBIT, etc.)
• Expert understanding of how compliance works with cloud-native technology stacks

Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page.

• Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 50-minute interviews with the hiring manager,
• Then, candidates will be invited to schedule 3 separate 50-minute interviews with 3 different peers from within the Security orgnaization,
• Finally, candidates will be invited to schedule a 25-minute interview with the Director, Security Assurance.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

Compensation

For Colorado residents: The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $128,800-$234,600 for Colorado residents only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for >Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

About GitLab

GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.

We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.

Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:

1. Mission: Everyone can contribute
2. Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
3. Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
4. Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
5. Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
6. Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
7. Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
8. Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
9. Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Friends and Family days
10. Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices

See our culture page for more!

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