You will join a fullstack team, working together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Vulnerability Management domain.
What you’ll do
Develop and maintain backend features for GitLab’s vulnerability management workflows.
Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Help improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of security data ingestion and reporting systems.
Collaborate with frontend engineers and contribute across the stack when needed.
Work with engineers across security teams as vulnerability data and workflows come together in Vulnerability Management.
Collaborate with Product Management and Product Design to maintain a high bar for quality
Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
Conduct code reviews within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
Take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.
What you’ll bring
Experience building and maintaining backend applications with Ruby on Rails.
Experience delivering and maintaining software systems as part of a larger engineering team.
The ability to investigate technical problems, ask for context when needed, and work toward a practical resolution.
Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
Clear communication and collaboration skills in a distributed team.
An interest in learning from others, sharing knowledge, and growing your technical skills.
Frontend development experience, including JavaScript or Vue.js, is helpful.
Experience with Elasticsearch, graph databases, vulnerability management, application security, or related transferable skills is helpful.
About the team
The Vulnerability Management team develops the core security workflows that help GitLab customers triage and manage vulnerabilities. The team owns areas including the security dashboard, vulnerability reports, and ingestion pipelines, and serves as an important interface for security-related features across GitLab. The team is focused on moving beyond lists of findings toward workflows that help customers prioritize and coordinate remediation. You’ll collaborate asynchronously with a small, distributed group and with related security teams, including the Agentic Security Flows team.
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and Development Fund
Parental Leave
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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