Backend Security Engineer - Vulnerability Management

Nerdleveltech; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity compensation

Employee stock purchase plan

Growth and development fund

Parental leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Software Engineer for the Vulnerability Management team to build core security workflows used by Ultimate customers. You’ll work primarily in Ruby on Rails on backend systems, including dashboards, reports, and ingestion pipelines.

You’ll join a fullstack team with PMs, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across Vulnerability Management, contributing across the stack when needed. This role emphasizes collaboration, quality, and on-call support.

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.
• 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.

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 on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Frontend JS/Vue.js

Clear communication

Learning mindset

Tools

Elasticsearch

Graph databases

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Software Engineer for the Vulnerability Management team to build core security workflows used by Ultimate customers. You’ll work primarily in Ruby on Rails on backend systems, including dashboards, reports, and ingestion pipelines.

You’ll join a fullstack team with PMs, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across Vulnerability Management, contributing across the stack when needed. This role emphasizes collaboration, quality, and on-call support.