GitLab Logo

GitLab

Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails), Security Risk Management: Security Insights

Posted 22 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
98K-210K Annually
Mid level
Easy Apply
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
98K-210K Annually
Mid level
As a Backend Engineer in Security Insights, develop vulnerability management features, collaborate on team projects, and improve product quality.
The summary above was generated by AI

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organization.

An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer in Security Insights, you will be working on vulnerability management features used daily by software engineers, application security engineers, and all the way up to CISOs. Our aim is to enable everyone to easily understand risk and mitigation of software exploits. All sizes of customers use our product offering, so this means we need to build systems that scale effectively while enabling our customers to achieve their goals efficiently.

You will join a full stack team, working together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Security Insights domain.

What You’ll Do  

  • Develop vulnerability management features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
  • Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality
  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
  • 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
  • Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What You’ll Bring 

  • Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
  • Strong experience with relational databases (postgres preferred).
  • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
  • Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
  • Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, provide clear and consistent status updates, with a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
  • Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
  • Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills

About the team

Security Insights is part of our Security Risk Management DevSecOps stage, and is specifically responsible for the Vulnerability Management category. Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, and tracking vulnerabilities in assets and applications. At its very simplest, vulnerability management aims to help security professionals efficiently and effectively determine what weaknesses to address in what order.

More information about our team:

  • Engineering sub-department handbook page
  • How we do planning
  • Priorities and Planning epic
How GitLab will support you
  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • All remote, asynchronous work environment
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and development budget 
  • Parental leave 
  • Home office support

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.

 
Remote-Global

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$98,000$210,000 USD

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.  

Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Top Skills

AI
Devsecops
Postgres
Ruby On Rails

GitLab San Francisco, California, USA Office

268 Bush St, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94104

Similar Jobs at GitLab

12 Hours Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
US
Easy Apply
76K-162K Annually
Mid level
76K-162K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
The Field Marketing Manager will design campaigns for government clients, build stakeholder relationships, collaborate with sales, and track campaign performance.
Top Skills: Account-Based Marketing StrategiesB2B MarketingCrm SystemsMarketing Automation Platforms
Yesterday
Easy Apply
Remote
3 Locations
Easy Apply
Mid level
Mid level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
Lead GitLab's expansion across Brazil by developing C-level relationships and driving DevOps transformation in the public sector. Manage accounts and ensure successful adoption of GitLab products.
Top Skills: Application Lifecycle ManagementGitSecurity ToolsSoftware Development Tools
Yesterday
Easy Apply
Remote
3 Locations
Easy Apply
91K-194K Annually
Senior level
91K-194K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Senior FP&A Analyst, you'll collaborate with sales leadership to drive financial planning, analysis, and modeling, enhancing decision-making processes.
Top Skills: Adaptive PlanningGoogle SheetsNetSuiteSQLTableau

What you need to know about the San Francisco Tech Scene

San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area attracts more startup funding than any other region in the world. Home to Stanford University and UC Berkeley, leading VC firms and several of the world’s most valuable companies, the Bay Area is the place to go for anyone looking to make it big in the tech industry. That said, San Francisco has a lot to offer beyond technology thanks to a thriving art and music scene, excellent food and a short drive to several of the country’s most beautiful recreational areas.

Key Facts About San Francisco Tech

  • Number of Tech Workers: 365,500; 13.9% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
  • Major Tech Employers: Google, Apple, Salesforce, Meta
  • Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, fintech, consumer technology, software
  • Funding Landscape: $50.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
  • Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins
  • Research Centers and Universities: Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of San Francisco; Santa Clara University; Ames Research Center; Center for AI Safety; California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account