Manager, Application Security (APAC)

An overview of this role

We are seeking a Security Manager, Application Security to drive the AppSec team at the tactical and operational level within the Security Platforms & Architecture (SPA) sub-department. The Application Security team is a key and critical stakeholder in securing GitLab’s product offerings.

In this role, you will manage and develop a team of Application Security Engineers (Intermediate through Staff) who perform security reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability triage, and secure design consultations across GitLab’s product surface. Your team is the front line of Product Security: the people reading the merge requests, talking to engineers, and evaluating features’ security posture before they are released to customers.

You will operate in an environment where feature delivery and platform capabilities are accelerating, architectures and technologies are evolving, and teams are continually balancing ambitious product goals with a strong security posture. In this context, you will help Product Security:

• Ensure that material product security risks and tradeoffs are surfaced, acknowledged, and decided at the right leadership levels
• Own operational execution for the team and ensure it operates through operational excellence.
• Build capability across every team member through coaching, mentoring, and career development
• Drive automation and AI-assisted enhancements of repeatable and time consuming work.

What you’ll do

• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of Application Security Engineers focused on clearing roadblocks, career growth and development, coaching and mentoring.
• Own the team’s operational cadence end to end: triage rotations, Application Security review queues, milestone planning.
• Drive tactical execution of the Application Security program: scaling the team for non linear security gains, security reviews enhancements and secure design consultations for high-risk changes.
• Lead AI adoption within the Application Security team: leverage AI-assisted/automated workflows for review triage, threat model generation, code analysis, and operational toil reduction. Champion practical AI use without losing critical thinking rigor.
• Recommend and drive security-related technical and process improvements.
• Author and execute project plans for security initiatives. Set schedules and assignments, anticipate roadblocks, and measure performance against goals.
• Provide input on security architecture, features, and issues. Serve as a partner and enabler to Product and Engineering teams on application security decisions.
• Partner with Security Architecture, Infrastructure Security, Security Research, and Security Operations on end-to-end risk reduction, aligning Application Security work with broader Product Security objectives.
• Prepare and deliver meaningful, actionable metrics to Product Security leadership.
• Hire and build a world-class team. Train team members to screen ca