Remote Rails Backend Engineer – Vulnerability Management

Far Coder; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Software Engineer for the Vulnerability Management team to help build core security workflows and triage vulnerabilities. You will work primarily in Ruby on Rails on backend systems, including security dashboards, reports, and ingestion pipelines.

You’ll join a fullstack team, collaborating with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver scalable solutions. Expect to contribute across the stack and participate in on-call rotations as needed.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

JavaScript

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Vue.js

Ruby on Rails

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Software Engineer for the Vulnerability Management team to help build core security workflows and triage vulnerabilities. You will work primarily in Ruby on Rails on backend systems, including security dashboards, reports, and ingestion pipelines.

You’ll join a fullstack team, collaborating with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver scalable solutions. Expect to contribute across the stack and participate in on-call rotations as needed.