Senior Security Risk Engineer

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. The Senior Security Risk Engineer will own security risk identification, quantification, prioritization, and remediation tracking across third-party risk, security assessments, and security findings, while partnering with cross-functional teams. The role will also modernize risk and GRC workflows through automation, scripting, and AI-enabled tooling and report emerging and top risks to leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Own risk identification, analysis, and prioritization across third-party risk (TPRM), security risk assessments, and security findings, using an established risk framework (e.g., NIST RMF, ISO 31000, or NIST 800-39)
• Translate technical vulnerabilities, control gaps, and risk findings into clear, quantified risk statements that non-security stakeholders and leadership can act on
• Drive remediation of findings and risk exceptions to closure, partnering with Engineering, IT, Product, and Legal, and escalating stalled or high-severity items
• Mature and maintain a risk register and quarterly reporting cadence that gives leadership clear visibility into open risk, remediation progress, and trends
• Own and mature AI risk management, including AI impact assessments, AI risk assessments, and risk treatments, to support ISO 42001 certification
• Design, develop, and implement key risk indicators and supporting metrics for top risks in the risk register
• Identify manual, repetitive steps in risk and TPRM workflows and personally build the automation, scripting, or AI-enabled tooling to remove them
• Contribute to the roadmap for the risk program, incorporating new frameworks, regulatory changes, and lessons learned from past assessments
• Monitor the internal and external risk landscape (new frameworks, threat trends, business changes) to identify and escalate emerging risks before they become findings

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in security risk management, working with security-centric risk management or compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST RMF, NIST 800-39, ISO 31000)
• Experience designing and executing qualitative and quantitative risk analyses that translate technical risks into measurable business impact
• A track record of driving risk assessments, risk registers, and remediation efforts to closure across IT, Procurement, Internal Audit, Legal, Product, and Engineering, in a heavily regulated or multi-entity environment
• Experience interpreting technical control requirements and translating them for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated bias toward automation: you've personally built scripts, workflows, or AI-enabled tooling that reduced manual risk or GRC work, not just evaluated tools conceptually
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, managing multiple concurrent assessments, and reprioritizing under tight deadlines
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to translate security risks into business risks
• Strong understanding of cloud security, SaaS security models, and DevSecOps practices
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks (e.g., ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF) is a plus
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC) are preferred but not required