Intermediate Backend Engineer - Authorization

About the Role

Join GitLab as an Intermediate Backend Engineer focusing on Authorization. In this role, you will be instrumental in building and iterating on our Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system. Your primary responsibility will be to enhance our authorization system, providing customers with full control over their member access. This involves implementing custom permissions and building features to help owners discover and manage their teams.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and iterate on our RBAC system by implementing custom permissions.
Build features to help owners discover and manage their teams.
Make architecture decisions to ensure the scalability and performance of the product.
Collaborate with team members in the refinement process and with product counterparts on milestone planning.
Participate in weekly sync calls with the group and manager.
Work with other teams when workload or incidents require it.

What You’ll Bring

Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
Strong experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
Experience with RBAC, ABAC, OAuth, SAML, SCIM, and LDAP.

About the Team

The Authorization group is responsible for ensuring that authenticated users have access to the proper resources within the application. We focus on making our customizable permissions offering more robust by adding additional granular permissions every milestone. We are also enhancing scalability by adding functionality like SAML group sync and LDAP role assignment support.

How GitLab Will Support You

Health Support: Comprehensive benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being.
Flexible Work Environment: All remote, asynchronous work environment.
Paid Time Off: Flexible Paid Time Off policy.
Resource Groups: Team Member Resource Groups for support and networking.
Equity Compensation: Employee Stock Purchase Plan and equity compensation.
Development Budget: Growth and development budget to support your career.
Parental Leave: Generous parental leave policy.
Home Office Support: Assistance with setting up your home office.

Additional Information

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

Salary

The base salary range for this role is $98,000—$210,000 USD 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.

Location

This is a remote position, allowing you to work from anywhere with a good internet connection. GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world, although some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements.