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

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values&nbsp;and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.</p> <p>*<em>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.</em></p></div><h4><strong>An overview of this role</strong></h4> <p>As the Senior Manager of the Security Posture Management (SPM) team within the<a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/product-security/"> Product Security Department</a>, 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Lead comprehensive, governed rollo