Software Security Engineer, GitLab

$103.6-166.5k

+ Equity Compensation + Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Salary is benchmarked based on US rates and may vary depending on the location

AWS

GCP

Ruby

Rails

Mid and Senior level

Remote from Canada, US

One DevOps platform

Be an early applicant

One DevOps platform

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Be an early applicant

$103.6-166.5k

+ Equity Compensation + Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Salary is benchmarked based on US rates and may vary depending on the location

AWS

GCP

Ruby

Rails

Mid and Senior level

Remote from Canada, US

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Company mission

To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A strong software engineering background with experience in large Ruby/Rails codebases is required
This role is an ideal fit for candidates with software engineering backgrounds interested in moving into security engineering. Formal security engineering experience is not a requirement for this role
Strong software development skills with experience in Ruby/Rails
Experience working on distributed applications with large codebases and deployed in cloud environments strongly preferred
Passion/desire to proactively develop security engineering skills
Comfortable working in an all remote environment where results and impact matter above hours worked
Interest in “thinking like a hacker” and defending against attacks with an “automation first” mindset
Interest in cloud native development (Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS)
Interest in handling trust and safety security incidents (platform abuse, cryptomining, platform spam)
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application

What the job involves

You will engineer security improvements to the GitLab product as well as building and maintaining the tools we use to detect and prevent abuse on our SaaS platforms
As an engineer on the Trust and Safety team, you will predictively identify abuse patterns and trends and build prevention systems to mitigate abusive users
The Trust and Safety team both maintains core abuse prevention platforms as well as cross functionally builds customer safety mechanisms on GitLab, such as the introduction of Compromised Password Detection for GitLab.com (link)
Maintain core abuse prevention systems and build new abuse detection rules to identify and prevent evolving abuse patterns such as platform abuse, cryptomining, platform spam and abuse of terms of service
Maintain and build new capabilities in our in-house abuse platform
Improve and expand agentic AI capabilities in our abuse mitigation tools
Collaborate with peers to deliver safety improvements for the GitLab product
Resolve automation gaps and create efficient, automated processes
Create and maintain documentation such as runbooks and procedures

Our take

GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.

According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.

GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

15% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Sep 2019

$268m

SERIES E

Dec 2018

$20m

SERIES D

Total funding: $435m

Company benefits

We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
Generous Paid Time Off

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Sid Sijbrandij

(CEO)

Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.

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