All vacancies
Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) - EMEA
GitLab
Remote · Poland, United KingdomSalary not disclosedfull-timeGitLab Careers
An overview of this role As a Senior Security Engineer on GitLab’s Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), you will play a critical role in defending GitLab.com and the broader GitLab environment against evolving security threats. This role operates on a compressed 4-day work schedule, with a full-time week's hours condensed into four longer working days.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate end-to-end incident response for high-severity security events within a 24/7 global on-call model, with this role operating during EMEA business hours
- Prepare clear executive communications that keep stakeholders informed during incidents
- Investigate complex security incidents across cloud environments, applying strong Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) methodologies
- Partnering with Signals Engineering to design and implement detection capabilities, including SIEM use cases, alerting strategies, and telemetry pipelines
- Build and enhance automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve triage, investigation speed, and response consistency
- Partner with Threat Intelligence to contextualize threats and improve detection coverage
- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and lead post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement and risk reduction
- Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and operational documentation
- Collaborate cross-functionally (Engineering, Infrastructure, Legal, Product, Communications, etc) during incidents and lead proactive initiatives (e.g. tabletops)
- Mentor other engineers and help elevate the team’s overall incident response maturity
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Posted
- 10 Jul 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days