Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) - Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Job description

About this 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.

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

Qualifications and requirements

• - Strong experience in security incident response and investigations in cloud-first environments
• - Experience using or administering Git/GitLab in a security or engineering context
• - Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, and/or detection engineering
• - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS & GCP)
• - Familiarity with threat intelligence and adversary tactics (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK)