Intermediate Backend Engineer, Threat Insights

Job Overview

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to join our Threat Insights team. This role involves working on highly visible features used by software engineers and CISOs to understand risk and mitigation. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Threat Insights domain, focusing on performance and optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 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 Review 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.

Required Skills and Experience

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL 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

The Threat Insights team is part of the cross-functional Agile team 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.

Benefits

• 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

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.