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Staff Security Engineer, IAM (USA)

GitLab Remote, US Full-time Corporate Security Posted May 28, 2026
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About the Role

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.

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 and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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An overview of this role

The Corporate Security Identity Team is on a mission to transform how our workforce ecosystem securely accesses the tools they need to do their best work, advancing from foundational controls to sophisticated, automated governance across our identity platforms and our emerging AI tooling.

As a Staff Security Engineer, you'll be a senior technical leader and strategic anchor on the team. You're passionate about designing elegant solutions to complex identity challenges, whether that's architecting enterprise-scale conditional access policies, codifying our identity platforms in Terraform, or building governance frameworks for AI agents and non-human identities. You'll be responsible for critical systems, write technical proposals that influence our roadmap, raise the bar through design and code review, and lead cross-functional initiatives that span Security, IT, Engineering, Compliance and People teams.

This isn't about maintaining the status quo- it's about architecting the future of identity security for a rapidly scaling company operating in regulated environments. *Because this role may need to support our FedRamp tech stack, hiring may be restricted to US citizens physically located in the US.

What you’ll do

What you’ll bring

Due to government requirements, you must be a United States Citizen (defined as any individual who is a citizen of the United States by law, birth, or naturalization) to fill this position.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. 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.

United States Salary Range
$168,000$238,000 USD

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