# Staff Security Governance Engineer, Policies & Standards at GitLab

- Company: GitLab
- What the company does: The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://about.gitlab.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-30
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8846277002?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gitlab-staff-security-governance-engineer-policies-and-standards/

## About the 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Security Assurance

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