Job Description

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.

An Overview Of This Role

Your role is to implement new features, as well as improve and maintain existing ones in collaboration with your Engineering peers and our colleagues in Product, Security, and Quality.

You will work in tandem with other groups in the Sec Section to deliver products that protect customers applications and provide them with confidence to deliver secure software, ever faster.

In your day to day, you will experience direct communication with customers, open source contributors and with product management. You will work to create a lovable experience for product categories that are used by thousands of users, and you will have access to feedback from those users, both internal and external.

You Will Work On Three Main Goals

• Gather - Introduce data points that help customers understand the urgency of issues in their security posture; e.g:
  • Reachability analysis - is this dependency used by the customers application?
  • Supply chain poisoning - has this dependency been tampered with?
  • Attribution of vulnerabilities - where and when has vulnerability been introduced?
• Integrate - Provide other groups with the means to take advantage of our innovative collection techniques to deliver better workflows for our customers
• Optimize - Solve data correlation at massive scale

Some Examples Of Our Projects

• User documentation for Dependency Scanning.
• User documentation for Container Scanning.
• User documentation for Operational Container Scanning.
• User documentation for Continuous Vulnerability Scanning.
• Youtube playlist of Composition Analysis Features & Demos.

What You’ll Do

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
• Participate in the reaction rotation, where engineers take turns addressing security, support and maintenance issues.

What You’ll Bring

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Experience with Golang is a bonus.
• Passion about security
• 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, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.