Senior Security Risk Engineer

GitLab's Security Risk function is responsible for reducing risk across the security division, including third-party risk, annual security risk assessments, quarterly risk reporting, and remediation of security findings.

As a Senior Security Risk Engineer, you'll take ownership of risk identification, quantification, and remediation tracking across the business, and you'll be a driving force behind automating and modernizing how the team does this work using AI and scripting.

Responsibilities:

• Own risk identification, analysis, and prioritization across third-party risk, security risk assessments, and security findings, using an established risk framework.
• Translate technical vulnerabilities, control gaps, and risk findings into clear, quantified risk statements that non-security stakeholders and leadership can act on.
• Drive remediation of findings and risk exceptions to closure, partnering with Engineering, IT, Product, and Legal, and escalating stalled or high-severity items.
• Mature and maintain a risk register and quarterly reporting cadence that gives leadership clear visibility into open risk, remediation progress, and trends.
• Own and mature AI risk management, including AI impact assessments, AI risk assessments, and risk treatments, to support ISO 42001 certification.
• Design, develop, and implement key risk indicators and supporting metrics for top risks in the risk register.
• Identify manual, repetitive steps in risk and TPRM workflows and personally build the automation, scripting, or AI-enabled tooling to remove them.
• Contribute to the roadmap for the risk program, incorporating new frameworks, regulatory changes, and lessons learned from past assessments.
• Monitor the internal and external risk landscape to identify and escalate emerging risks before they become findings.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in security risk management, working with security-centric risk management or compliance frameworks.
• Experience designing and executing qualitative and quantitative risk analyses that translate technical risks into measurable business impact.
• A track record of driving risk assessments, risk registers, and remediation efforts to closure across IT, Procurement, Internal Audit, Legal, Product, and Engineering, in a heavily regulated or multi-entity environment.
• Experience interpreting technical control requirements and translating them for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated bias toward automation: you've personally built scripts, workflows, or AI-enabled tooling that reduced manual risk or GRC work.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, managing multiple concurrent assessments, and reprioritizing under tight deadlines.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to translate security risks into business risks.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, SaaS security models, and DevSecOps practices.

Benefits:

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave