About the company
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend features for GitLab’s vulnerability management workflows.
- Confidently ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members; collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Help 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 as vulnerability data and workflows come together in Vulnerability Management.
- Collaborate with Product Management and Product Design to maintain a high bar for quality.
- 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.
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining backend applications with Ruby on Rails.
- Experience delivering and maintaining software systems as part of a larger engineering team.
- The ability to investigate technical problems, ask for context when needed, and work toward a practical resolution.
- Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills in a distributed team.
- An interest in learning from others, sharing knowledge, and growing your technical skills.
- Frontend development experience, including JavaScript or Vue.js, is helpful.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, graph databases, vulnerability management, application security, or related transferable skills is helpful.
Conditions
- The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. 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, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits.
- United States Salary Range: $115,200 — $172,800 USD
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave