Software Engineering Manager, Application Security Testing

Overview of this Role

As an Engineering Manager for Composition Analysis and Dynamic Analysis, you’ll lead multiple teams building the application security scanning capabilities that help GitLab customers find and fix vulnerabilities in their software supply chain and web applications. You’ll guide engineers working on software composition analysis, container scanning, API security, dynamic application security testing, and fuzz testing, and you’ll be responsible for setting priorities, shaping product architecture, and running agile processes across these groups so that our security offerings stay effective, reliable, and easy to use in real DevSecOps environments.

You’ll balance complex, security-focused roadmaps, author project plans that span both groups, and coordinate their work so that customers get a cohesive, end-to-end application security experience within GitLab. In your first year, you’ll drive key initiatives like auto-remediation of vulnerable packages, scanning unmanaged C/C++ dependencies, static reachability analysis at the function level, snippet detection for open source dependencies, and significant improvements to the DAST crawler’s efficiency and stability.

Some Examples Of Our Projects

• Designing auto-remediation workflows for vulnerable open source and third-party dependencies
• Improving the DAST crawler to provide more consistent and reliable coverage of modern web applications

What you’ll do

• Lead engineers across the Composition Analysis and Dynamic Analysis groups, setting clear priorities and expectations.
• Drive key security initiatives, including auto-remediation of vulnerable software packages, scanning unmanaged C/C++ dependencies, static reachability analysis, and snippet detection for open source dependencies.
• Improve Dynamic Analysis Security Testing (DAST) capabilities by enhancing the crawler for efficiency, stability, and consistent web application traversal.
• Balance priorities and resources across multiple security-focused engineering teams to ensure sustainable delivery and high-quality outcomes.
• Author and maintain project plans for epics spanning both groups, aligning work, identifying dependencies, and avoiding duplication of effort.
• Run agile project management processes for multiple teams, including planning, estimation, and continuous improvement of delivery practices.
• Provide guidance on the architecture of security products, ensuring that software composition analysis and dynamic analysis solutions are robust and scalable.
• Collaborate closely with Composition Analysis and Dynamic Analysis teams to ensure consistent, complementary approaches to application security across GitLab’s platform.

What you’ll bring

• Background leading multiple technical teams or groups, ideally in application security or related domains
• Practical understanding of software composition analysis, including how to assess and manage risks in application dependencies
• Knowledge of dynamic application security testing (DAST), API security, and web application security testing techniques and tools
• Familiarity with containerization technologies, package managers, and dependency management systems
• Experience working with or around open source security tooling (for example, OWASP ZAP, Trivy, or similar tools)
• Ability to plan and run agile project management processes across several teams, including coordinating priorities and dependencies
• Skill in guiding product and architecture decisions for security scanning tools, balancing technical constraints with customer needs
• Openness to candidates with transferable experience in security engineering, DevSecOps, or vulnerability management who are motivated to grow in application security leadership

About The Team

The Composition Analysis and Dynamic Analysis teams sit within GitLab’s security product area and focus on building and improving our application security scanning capabilities across the DevSecOps platform. Together, these groups own core features such as software composition analysis, container scanning, API security, dynamic application security testing, fuzz testing, and related remediation workflows. You’ll lead a distributed group of security-focused engineers who collaborate asynchronously across time zones using GitLab itself for planning, code review, and delivery. The team is currently focused on advancing capabilities like auto-remediation of vulnerable packages, scanning unmanaged C/C++ dependencies, static reachability analysis, snippet detection for open source dependencies, and improving the DAST crawler for more efficient, stable coverage of modern web applications, while keeping architectures aligned and approaches consistent across both groups.

How GitLab Will Support You

• 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 Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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Key skills/competency

• Application Security
• DevSecOps
• Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
• Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
• Vulnerability Management
• Team Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Security Architecture
• Project Management
• Open Source Security Tooling