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Staff Security Governance Engineer, Policies & Standards
GitLab
Remote · United StatesSalary not disclosedfull-timeGitLab Careers
An overview of this role As a Staff Security Governance Engineer, you will be the individual contributor who owns how GitLab writes, maintains, communicates, and measures its security policies and standards. You will turn emerging regulations, including AI regulation, into clear requirements that engineering, product, and legal teams can act on, and you will use automation to keep governance lightweight and continuous rather than a point-in-time exercise.
Responsibilities
- Policies and standards
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of GitLab's security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines: drafting, stakeholder review, approval, publication, annual review, and retirement.
- Define and run the exception management process, including risk-based approvals, expiry tracking, and trend reporting that shows where policies need to change.
- Run policy attestation and investigate non-adherence.
- Keep policies clear, practical, and aligned with how GitLab's engineering teams work in a DevSecOps environment.
- Regulatory and framework alignment
- Monitor emerging regulations and standards (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, sector or regional requirements) and partner with Legal well ahead of compliance deadlines to assess impact and update policy.
- Maintain mappings between our policies and frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, FedRAMP, and NIST CSF, so requirements are written once and reused.
- Measurement and assurance
- Define KPIs for policy adherence and report trends to Security leadership.
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Posted
- 30 Sept 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days