GitLab
Principal Security Researcher
US, Canada +2
UTC-10 to UTC+2 $203k to $275k per year Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- Remote, Canada; Remote, Israel; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC+2
- Salary
- USD 203,200 to 275,000 per year
- Posted
- September 5, 2026
Summary from the posting
- Conduct and lead security research projects across multiple functional areas.
- Identify novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities in GitLab, where individual weaknesses combine for outsized impact.
- Validate security vulnerabilities through hands-on testing, developing proof-of-concept exploits that demonstrate real-world attack scenarios.
- Assess emerging industry vulnerability classes against the GitLab codebase, and drive remediation of the class rather than the instance.
- Lead security research into GitLab's AI and agentic surfaces, and define the security requirements that engineering teams build against.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on GitLab's own career page.