Intermediate Software Engineer, Security Factory: Vulnerability Management

About the role

As an Intermediate Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Management team, you will build core security workflows that help customers triage, prioritize, and act on vulnerabilities. You will work primarily with Ruby on Rails on backend systems, including security dashboards and ingestion pipelines, while collaborating with a distributed fullstack team. The role involves taking ownership of well-defined projects and contributing to the performance and scalability of security data systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend features for vulnerability management workflows.
• Ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and collaborate on larger projects.
• 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 to integrate vulnerability data and workflows.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Design to maintain high quality standards.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure community contributions receive a swift response.
• Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot product and security operations.

Required skills

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• Backend development
• Software engineering

Nice to have

• JavaScript
• Vue.js
• Elasticsearch
• Graph databases
• Vulnerability management
• Application security

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

About the Company

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security risk. More than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship secure software faster.